ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,668, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Battery diode fault monitoring" was invented by Geoffrey Alan Long (Montara, Calif.), Jing Xue (San Jose, Calif.) and Khoichi Lawrence Takayama (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed to detect failure of a diode that is connected in series with a battery and a contactor or other switch configured to connect the battery to a load when the contactor or other switch is in a closed position and to isolate the battery from the load when the contactor or other switch is in an open position. In various embodiments, the system inclu...