Patent 7505847 was granted and assigned to Eastman Kodak on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A configurable electronic controller system used for signal acquisition of input sensors and control of output loads, connected respectively to the configurable controller, can be re-configured to perform diagnostics on same input sensors and output loads. The diagnostic results provide information on the viability of the tested input sensors and output loads as well as the existence of shorts between input signal lines, while still connected to the sensors.