ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,834, issued on June 23, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for the electronic diagnosis of an electric drivetrain for a motor vehicle" was invented by Nicolas Martinez (Caragoudes, France) and Jean-Luc Boyer (Tournefeuille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for electronically diagnosing an electric drive chain for an electric or hybrid motor vehicle. The drive chain including an electric battery, an electric machine, an inverter connected between the battery and the electric machine, and a link capacitor connected in parallel between the battery and the inverter. The di...