ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,047, issued on April 8, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Inverter with optimized electromagnetic performance" was invented by Ivonne Trenz (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Michael Kohr (Bodnegg, Germany), Florian Pahn (Ravensburg, Germany), Pengshuai Wang (Eriskirch, Germany), Manuel Raimann (Salem, Germany), Philipp Rau (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Jonas Zeller (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Gerhard Muller (Immenstaad am Bodensee, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter includes a DC input, a link capacitor including a plurality of input contacts fitted to a capacitor housing, a plurality of ha...