US Patent Issued to BorgWarner US Technologies on June 9 for "Systems and methods for power module for inverter for electric vehicle" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,781, issued on June 9, was assigned to BorgWarner US Technologies LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for power module for inverter for electric vehicle" was invented by Kevin M. Gertiser (Carmel, Ind.) and Chris Fruth (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: an inverter configured to convert DC power to AC power, wherein the inverter includes: a power module including: a flex layer including a gate trace providing an electrical connection to a gate input connection of the power module, a first substrate, a second substrate including a source plane, the source plane including a step trench, a semiconduc...