ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,886, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Power module and inverter module design to minimize parasitic inductance and optimize thermal performance" was invented by Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Muhammad Hussain Alvi (Troy, Mich.), Junghoon Kim (Ann Abor, Mich.), Khorshed Mohammed Alam (Canton, Mich.), Ming Liu (Shanghai) and Sanjeev M. Naik (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leg of a power converter includes: a first one of (a) a first power module and (b) a first die, the first one including a high side switch having a first terminal configured to be connected to a first direct...