ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,006, issued on March 11, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Determination of an unbalanced load in a high-voltage system and reaction to the same" was invented by Tobias Aurand (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Markus Zimmer (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For an electrical unbalanced load of a vehicle having an at least partially electrified drive train with at least one high-voltage system, information about a value characterizing an energy quantity of a Y capacitor of the high-voltage system is determined. The information about the electrical unbalanced load is finally determin...