US Patent Issued to AUDI, HITACHI ENERGY on April 14 for "Electronic converter designed on the basis of welding technologies" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,441, issued on April 14, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and HITACHI ENERGY LTD (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Electronic converter designed on the basis of welding technologies" was invented by Thomas Gradinger (Aarau Rohr, Switzerland), David Baumann (Schafisheim, Switzerland), Chunlei Lui (Oberrohrdorf, Switzerland) and Daniele Torresin (Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter including a semiconductor module and a cooling housing. The semiconductor module includes a semiconductor chip, a substrate having a first side and a second side, a base plate having a first side and a second side, and a molding...