ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,386, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Power supply output apparatus, fault diagnosis method, airbag controller and airbag system" was invented by Xiaofei Qiu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit includes (i) at least one voltage output end, each said voltage output end being connected to a filter capacitor, (ii) at least one detection circuit disposed in the control circuit, each said detection circuit being connected to one said voltage output end, and (iii) a fault output apparatus which is configured to, when the detection circuit detects that a fault has occur...