ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,044, issued on April 8, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Inverter insulator apparatus and method" was invented by Young Mok Doo (La Palma, Calif.), Juan Lopez (Wildomar, Calif.) and Shawn Merritt (Lomita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include alignment apparatuses for circuit boards, inverter assemblies, and methods for fabricating an assembly with a circuit board placed on an alignment apparatus. An illustrative apparatus includes an electrically insulative substrate having a first substantially planar surface and a second substantially planar surface forming an opposing side of...