US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on March 4 for "Half-bridge for an electric drive of an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle, power module for an inverter and inverter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,247, issued on March 4, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Half-bridge for an electric drive of an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle, power module for an inverter and inverter" was invented by Ivonne Trenz (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Manuel Raimann (Salem, Germany), Thomas Bosch (Horgenzell, Germany) and Ruben Barenweiler (Markdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A half-bridge having semiconductor switch elements embedded in a modular layer system that comprises a contact plane and a metal plating for establishing contact with the semiconductor switch elements, wherein the signal connections...