ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,848, issued on July 7, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for short circuit detection in wiring harnesses" was invented by Qi Zhu (Reutlingen, Germany), Andreas Domdey (Reutlingen, Germany) and Vasanthapriyan Senguttuvan (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a short circuit in a wiring harness that contacts an electric device. The method includes: carrying out a first and second test measurements, in which a first and second predefined electric current is applied to an electric device connected to a line to be monitored of the wiring harness and resulting fir...