ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,130, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to VIESSMANN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS SE (Allendorf, Germany).

"Inverter with closed cooling channel" was invented by Markus Hopf (Espenau, Germany), Konstantin Steinbach (Baunatal, Germany), Alexander Simonow (Frankenberg, Germany), Andreas Zacharias (Reiskirchen, Germany), Mario Koch (Frankenau, Germany), Alexander Maier (Frankenberg, Germany) and Johann Vogelmann (Burgwald, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter including a housing surrounding an internal space of the inverter. Two boards with power semiconductors disposed thereon are disposed in the internal space. A bracket serves to fix...