US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 29 for "On-board vehicle inverter with selectable neutral bonding" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,920, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"On-board vehicle inverter with selectable neutral bonding" was invented by Samantha Gunter Miller (Berkley, Mich.) and Douglas S. Cesiel (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a power inverter coupled to an AC bus having a neutral conductor, a switching device coupled between the neutral conductor and a ground conductor, a sensor configured to measure an impedance between the neutral and ground conductors, and a control module. The power inverter is configured to provide AC power to an output via the AC bus. Th...