ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,311, issued on June 10, was assigned to Valeo Siemens eAutomotive France SAS (Erlangen, Germany).
"Active discharge device and method" was invented by Yamna Bakhali (Cergy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This device for actively discharging an electrical energy storage device has a branch having first and second ends connected respectively to positive and negative terminals of the electrical energy storage device, and between the two ends, a thermistor having a resistance that increases with a temperature of the thermistor and a switch designed to receive a control signal (vGS) to change from an open state to a closed state, t...