ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,020, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Drive with segmented inverter housing" was invented by Christian Deeg (Altdorf, Germany), Harald Kuhn (Nuremberg, Germany), Johannes Lehner (Furth, Germany), Mischa Maidorn (Stein, Germany), Hans Tischmacher (Lauf, Germany) and Savvas Tsotoulidis (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of producing an add-on part of a drive, one circuit board of multiple planar circuit boards, which have electrical conductor tracks with electrical connections, is provided with a centrally arranged opening for passage of a shaft. The circuit boards ar...