ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,934, issued on March 4, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hanover, Germany).
"Method for supplying power to an inductive load" was invented by Thierry Bavois (Toulouse, France), Florence Capy (Toulouse, France) and Angelo Pasqualetto (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supplying power to an inductive load (12) using an H-bridge (2) power supply structure, comprising a first block B1 of steps for detecting an anomaly using a "DIAG ON" diagnostic method, a second block B2 of steps for detecting an anomaly using a "DIAG OFF" diagnostic method, and finally a third block B3 of steps for discriminating th...