ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,992, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AVL Software and Functions GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Power module having reduced intrinsic inductance" was invented by Christoph Bauer (Regensburg, Germany) and Peter Weiss (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module having reduced intrinsic inductance has an at least partially electrically insulating layer that has a first surface on which a power electronics unit is arranged and a second surface which is opposite the first surface. The module also has a compensation layer arranged on the second surface, which the compensation layer is electrically conductive and whic...