ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,442, issued on April 14, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Power module, particularly for power electronics of a vehicle" was invented by Alexander Frank (Herrenberg, Germany), Christian Egger (Stuttgart, Germany), Erdogan Dikmenli (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Marco Lorenz (Ditzingen, Germany) and Samuel Vasconcelos Araujo (Esslingen Am Necker, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module, for power electronics of a vehicle, having two DC busbars and three phase busbars which are disposed between the two DC busbars, and a plurality of power semiconductors, each of which is disposed between one of the DC bu...