ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,769, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Control device for rotary electric machine unit" was invented by Kenta Tabuchi (Toyota, Japan), Yoshitomo Kawanishi (Toyota, Japan), Shingo Nagai (Toyota, Japan) and Sho Okazaki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to an air density in a coil and information related to a voltage applied to a rotary electric machine, an insulation determination unit configured to determine whether or not dielectric breakdown occurs in the coil based on the informati...