US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on March 3 for "Circuit arrangement, printed circuit board arrangement, electric drive and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,573, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Circuit arrangement, printed circuit board arrangement, electric drive and motor vehicle" was invented by Florian Ullrich (Gerolzhofen, Germany), Robin Michelberger (Schweinfurt, Germany), Joao Bonifacio (Meckenbeuren, Germany), Alexander Buttner (Sulzthal, Germany) and Michael Engel (Markdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit configuration includes a voltage surge protector that is connected in parallel to the link capacitor to protect the link capacitor from voltage overloads. A printed circuit board assembly, an electric axle...