ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,817, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric work vehicle having an inverter housing" was invented by Ryunosuke Matsumoto (Sakai, Japan), Kazuto Okazaki (Sakai, Japan) and Shinichi Kawabata (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter includes an exterior case housing a substrate provided with an inverter circuit. The exterior case includes a rectangular box-shaped case body with an opening above a space surrounded by a bottom plate portion and a peripheral wall portion of the case body, and a case lid operable to open and close the opening. Substrate stopping portions to fix the substr...