ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,532, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Southwest Jiaotong University (Chengdu, China).

"Online fault identification method for current sensor, diagnosis apparatus, and fault-tolerant control system" was invented by Shuai Xu (Chengdu, China), Guangtong Ma (Chengdu, China), Chunxing Yao (Chengdu, China) and Sijia Wu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an online fault identification method for a current sensor, a diagnosis apparatus, and a fault-tolerant control system, relating to the technical field of diagnosis of faults of current sensors. The method includes defining a fault of the current sensor, and sett...