ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,425, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cornell Dubilier LLC (Itasca, Ill.).
"Capacitor assembly" was invented by Samuel Graham Parler Jr. (Clemson, S.C.), Paul Mathew Jan Jorissen Jr. (South Dartmouth, Mass.) and Brian Lowell Padelford (New Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor assembly comprises a plurality of capacitor elements (e.g., four or more capacitor elements) each having a first end surface and a second end surface defining a first polarity terminal and a second polarity terminal, respectively. The plurality of capacitor elements are arranged in at least one stacked pair with a first polarity terminal o...