ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,498, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Vehicle electrical system having a high-voltage branch, a low-voltage branch, and low-voltage-side insulation fault detection" was invented by Franz Pfeilschifter (Walderbach, Germany) and Jurgen Kuffer (Beratzhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a vehicle electrical system equipped with a high-voltage branch and a first low-voltage branch, which is galvanically isolated from the high-voltage branch by insulation. The low-voltage branch has at least one low-voltage line, which leads to the high-voltage branch. T...