ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,675, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus, method and computer readable medium for diagnosing fault of load cell" was invented by Do Kon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing a fault of a load cell includes a power supply unit applying power to an input terminal of a plurality of load cells connected in parallel, each of the plurality of load cells including an input terminal and an output terminal, a fault diagnosis resistor being connected to the output terminal, a voltage measurement unit measuring...