ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,993, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Assembly for a power module, power module and method for producing an assembly for a power module" was invented by Gontran Paques (Birrwil, Switzerland), Andreas Roesch (Murg, Germany) and Roman Ehrbar (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a power module includes an electrically isolating base body and first and second electrically conductive structures embedded in the base body. The first and electrically conductive structures are configured to carry different voltages during normal operation of the power modu...