US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on April 1 for "Intelligent vehicle systems and control logic for intrusive detection of high-voltage pathway failures" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,833, issued on April 1, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Intelligent vehicle systems and control logic for intrusive detection of high-voltage pathway failures" was invented by Emil Francu (Northville, Mich.), Russell K. Steele (Clinton Township, Mich.), Andrew M. Zettel (Port Mood, Canada) and Rohit Singhal (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a motor vehicle includes a vehicle controller receiving, from a first feedback sensor of an HV component, a first feedback signal indicative of an electrical characteristic of the HV component, and then detecting an HV system fault if...