ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,075, issued on June 3, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Inverter structure of an electronic module for an electric drive of a vehicle" was invented by Ake Ewald (Bayreuth, Germany) and Stefan Hain (Speichersdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter has at least one current phase along a first axis and an input-side current connection for each phase, for receiving a DC input current. The phase(s) output AC output current generated from the DC input current, which is generated by a semiconductor bridge circuit. An intermediate circuit connected in parallel to the bridge circuit has at lea...