ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,311, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Combined liquid and air cooled power electronics assembly" was invented by Arindom Joardar (Jamesville, N.Y.), Lokanath Mohanta (Liverpool, N.Y.), Konstantin Borisov (Avon, Conn.) and Ismail Agirman (Southington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronics assembly includes one or more power electronics devices, and a heat exchanger to which the one or more power electronics devices are mounted. The heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger body, and one or more fluid pathways extending through the heat exchanger body, the heat exchanger co...