ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,362, issued on March 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"EMC filter for a control device" was invented by Rupert Fackler (Pleidelsheim, Germany), Stefan Heimburger (Willstaett-Legelshurst, Germany) and Michel Gross (Dusslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an EMC filter for a control device. The filter includes a multilayer circuit carrier comprising electrically conductive layers, in particular copper layers, and electrically insulating circuit board layers. According to the invention, the circuit carrier of the aforementioned type forms at least two filter capacitors, where...