ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,570, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Film capacitor and motor vehicle" was invented by Maximilian Barkow (Stuttgart, Germany), Timijan Velic (Weissach, Germany) and Karl Dums (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film capacitor including a core, a plurality of film layers wrapped around the core, and at least one first spacer arranged between two first film layers of the plurality of film layers, wherein an interstice configured outside of a spacer cross-section is provided between the two first film layers by the at least one first spacer."

The patent was filed on...