ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,232, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Component assembly for power electronics and method for providing a component assembly for power electronics" was invented by Samy Arnaout (Niedenstein, Germany), Jan Schmaeling (Baunatal, Germany) and Oliver Rang (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component assembly for power electronics, having at least one power module, at least one separate connection module, a separate control circuit carrier, and a housing. The at least one power module, the at least one connection module, and the separate control circuit carrier are arranged in a specif...