ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,020, issued on March 18, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Monitoring and identifying sensor failure in an electric drive system" was invented by Xiaoyun Zang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring and identifying sensor faults in an electric drive system of a vehicle includes collecting corresponding data using sensors in the electric drive system, inputting the collected data to an already-established sensor fault mode identification model, and determining whether a fault mode exists and a fault mode type based on the collected data using the sensor fault mode identification model. ...