US Patent Issued to Tesla on Sept. 22 for "Conductive grease formulations and grounding solutions for electric drive unit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,130, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Conductive grease formulations and grounding solutions for electric drive unit" was invented by Wenyang Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jacob Brito (Pal Alto, Calif.), Kris Karpinski (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Jansen (San Bruno, Calif.), Corbin Johnston (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicolas Malecek (San Francisco), Long Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Aakash Todakar (Milpitas, Calif.), Ford Price (San Francisco) and Nicolas Verzeni (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive grease comprising a base oil, an organic lubricant additive for enhancing lubricati...