ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,976, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Diagnostic circuit for a battery disconnect unit, method for diagnosing a battery disconnect unit, battery disconnect unit" was invented by Johannes Swoboda (Stuttgart, Germany), Chrysanthos Tzivanopoulos (Grossbettlingen, Germany) and Thomas Barabas (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic circuit (60) for diagnosing a battery disconnect unit (100) for disconnecting a battery system (200) from an electrical system (300). The battery disconnect unit (100) includes a first switching element (S1) and a second switching element (S2). ...