ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,124, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"High-current element for high-current printed circuit boards" was invented by Michael Sperber (Bayreuth, Germany), Ake Ewald (Bayreuth, Germany) and Chandra Gupta Hazarika (Duliajan, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-current element for high-current printed circuit boards is formed from at least two metal sheets which are connected to form a sheet-metal stack and which have a plurality of pins at least at an end region thereof, and wherein the sheet-metal stack has a terminal region, a pin region, and a connection region, and wherein ...