ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,490, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electric power conversion device" was invented by Yusuke Shindo (Wako, Japan), Jun Kato (Wako, Japan) and Takahiro Hagimoto (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power conversion device of an embodiment includes: a primary side negative electrode terminal; a secondary side negative electrode terminal; a negative electrode terminal of a switching element connected between the primary side negative electrode terminal and the secondary side negative electrode terminal; a first conductive member connected to the primary side negative electrode terminal...