US Patent Issued to FERRARI on Sept. 16 for "Method to assess the ageing of an electrical connection installed in a vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,688, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Method to assess the ageing of an electrical connection installed in a vehicle" was invented by Giuseppe Agnello (Modena, Italy), Roberto Betro' (Modena, Italy), Giovanni Lo Calzo (Modena, Italy), Ugo Sitta (Modena, Italy) and Luca Poggio (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ageing of an electrical connection installed in a vehicle is evaluated by performing a series of samplings, spaced apart from one another at predefined time intervals, so as to determine a working temperature of the electrical connection for each sampling interval, and by dete...