ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,074, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Power electronics module" was invented by Ake Ewald (Bayreuth, Germany) and Stefan Hain (Speichersdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronics module, having a PCB having power semiconductors arranged on connecting regions of an uppermost layer of said PCB, wherein the PCB has a preset dimension to arrange a preset maximum number of power semiconductors thereon. A lead frame arranged above the power semiconductors provides three-dimensional power and control routing, and includes a drain-source connection to connect to a dra...