ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,654, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Component arrangement for an electrical high-voltage on-board power supply of a vehicle" was invented by Thomas Weber (Herrenberg, Germany), Markus Orner (Rennigen, Germany), Nathan Troester (Stuttgart, Germany), Andreas Kruspel (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Matthias Leinfelder (Tuebingen, Germany), Keith Ren Qiang Ong (Boeblingen, Germany), Urs Boehme (Ehningen, Germany) and Akin Candir (Filderstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component arrangement for an electric high-voltage on-board power supply of a vehicle includes a shared...