ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,055, issued on June 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Power control apparatus" was invented by Shintaro Kogure (Kariya-city, Japan) and Satoshi Yamaura (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control apparatus includes a busbar unit which supports a plurality of busbars connected to a plurality of semiconductor modules. The busbar includes a first plate shaped portion and a second plate shaped portion. The first plate shaped portion is adjacent to a cooling device in a posture facing an internal passage of the cooling device in the plate thickness direction. The second plate shaped portion is placed i...