ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,311, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sensata Technologies Inc. (Attleboro, Mass.).
"Isolation monitoring" was invented by Victor Marten (Flushing, N.Y.), Nicolas Clauvelin (New York) and Ioannis Milios (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An isolation monitoring approach according to the invention is defined with respect to first and second battery connection positions, each of which is not tied to a chassis. First and second respective resistor strings, each having a first end and a second end, are each connected at their first end to the respective first and second battery connection positions. The first and second resistor ...