US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for controlling a DC-DC power converter" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,873, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a DC-DC power converter" was invented by Rasoul Hosseini (Troy, Mich.) and Ranjay Singh (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-activating fault protection circuit for an electrical charging system for an on-vehicle rechargeable energy storage device that includes a DC-DC boost converter is described. The self-activating fault protection circuit includes, in one embodiment, an electrical connector including a positive cable and a negative cable, high-voltage electric power bus, and a self-activa...