ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,575, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power conversion device using PCB's" was invented by Mikito Hirata (Tokyo), Kenta Fujii (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kiyonaga (Tokyo) and Yusuke Morimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power conversion device includes a casing, a first printed board, a second printed board, and a control circuit board. The casing has at least two inner surfaces. The first printed board is fixed to the inner surface of the casing. The second printed board is fixed to the inner surface of the casing, and disposed so as to intersect with the first printed board. The control circ...