ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,071, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method, circuit arrangement, and system for identifying impedance changes in a signal line" was invented by Felix Fellhauer (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and to a circuit arrangement for identifying impedance changes in a signal line in a communication system. A first signal at a first frequency is input at a first end of the signal line, wherein a signal coming from the signal line and present at the first end is detected, is sampled at a second frequency different from the first frequency, and is analyzed for an impedance...