ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,990, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical bus bar assembly" was invented by Patrick Reedy (Youngstown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical bus bar assembly includes a first bus bar segment, a second bus bar segment separated from the first bus bar segment, and a first plurality of bearings formed of an electrically conductive material and in electrical contact with the first bus bar segment and the second bus bar segment. The first plurality of bearings is configured to allow the first bus bar segment to move relative to the second bus bar segment. A method of...