US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, University of Connecticut on June 30 for "Physics-informed partial least squares regression modeling for failure detection in power electronic devices" (Connecticut, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,216, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Physics-informed partial least squares regression modeling for failure detection in power electronic devices" was invented by Krishna Pattipati (Farmington, Conn.), Muhamed K. Farooq (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Qian Yang (Farmington, Conn.), Ali Bazzi (Farmington, Conn.), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for performing fault detection and prediction for power electronics ...