US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 17 for "Power converter with color-anodized aluminum busbars, and method for producing such a power converter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,492, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Power converter with color-anodized aluminum busbars, and method for producing such a power converter" was invented by Philipp Kneissl (Nuremberg, Germany) and Stephan Neugebauer (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for producing a power converter, a surface or at least part of the surface of at least two aluminum busbars is subjected to an anodizing treatment to color the surface with at least one specifiable color, and a cold gas coating is applied on a first part of the surface to produce a contact surface."

The patent was filed on May 10, 20...