ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,130, issued on March 17, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GERAMNY GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Capacitor assembly, vehicle-drive power electronics device with a capacitor assembly" was invented by Thomas Paesler (Eckental, Germany) and Detlef Ludwig (Diepersdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a capacitor assembly comprising: a capacitor extending at least partially around a space, the capacitor including first, positive-voltage-side current terminals and second, negative-voltage-side current terminals; a first bus bar electrically connected to the first current termina...