ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,437, issued on June 24, was assigned to SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Smoothing circuit for inverter and inverter for aircraft" was invented by Masashi Kutsuna (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoothing circuit 2 for an inverter includes a parallel flat plate 21, a plurality of capacitors 22 arranged in a matrix and mounted on the parallel flat plate 21, and a thermal conductive sheet 23 interposed between the parallel flat plate 21 and a housing 4 in an area overlapping a mounting area 21c of the plurality of capacitors 22 when viewed along a normal direction of the parallel flat plate 21. The plurality of capacitors...