ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,726, issued on July 14, was assigned to Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Inverter structure of an inverter of a power electronics module for operating an electric drive of a motor vehicle" was invented by Ake Ewald (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter includes a heat sink having a cooling plate, and at least one phase, wherein each phase includes a half-bridge arranged on an upper side of the cooling plate and DC and AC busbars stacked on the half-bridge and electrically insulated from one another, wherein taps of the DC and AC busbars are provided on mutually opposite sides of the power electr...