ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,005, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Power electronics module" was invented by Ake Ewald (Bayreuth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronics module, having a continuous DBC PCB having power semiconductors arranged on connecting regions of an uppermost layer of said DBC PCB and a lead frame arranged above the power semiconductors for three-dimensional power and control routing, wherein the lead frame has a drain-source connection, which can be brought into electrical contact with a drain-source contact of the PCB, and a load-source connection which is opposite the...