US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 8 for "Electrified vehicle inverter power module cooling" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,136, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrified vehicle inverter power module cooling" was invented by Vincent T. Skalski (Plymouth, Mich.) and Brian Christian Orr (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter power module cooling system for an electrified vehicle includes an inlet coupled to channels providing coolant from a heat exchanger in parallel to a plurality of power modules along a first edge of associated chips having one or more switches, and channels collecting coolant from a second edge of associated chips. An additional serpentine channel receives coolant...