ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,275, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Power conversion apparatus" was invented by Yuhei Wada (Chuo-ku, Japan), Jumpei Isozaki (Chuo-ku, Japan) and Taichiro Tsuchiya (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First to third capacitors each have an identical shape of a rectangular parallelepiped. The rectangular parallelepiped has a first surface with a first side and a second side, a second surface with the second side and a third side, and a third surface with the third side and the first side. The first side has a length not less than twice and less than three times a length of the third side. Th...