ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,865, issued on April 7, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Inverter" was invented by Takashi Kuwahara (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihiro Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Asakura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Seiji Hoshika (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter includes a case, and the case includes an upper case and a lower case attached to a bottom surface side of the upper case. The upper case includes a flange portion constituting an attachment portion of the lower case, and a connector connecting portion to which a connector is connected. The connector connecting portion includes an outer wall po...