US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 31 for "Power module having at least three power units" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,729, issued on March 31, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Power module having at least three power units" was invented by Jens Schmenger (Forchheim, Germany), Roman Kogler (Nuremberg, Germany), Alexander Luft (Nuremberg, Germany), Lutz Namyslo (Hausen, Germany), Bernd Roppelt (Unterhaid, Germany) and Thomas Schwinn (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module includes at least two power units. Each power unit includes at least one power semiconductor and a substrate. In order to reduce the installation space required for the power module and to improve cooling, the at least one power semiconductor is c...