US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on May 13 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., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,128, issued on May 13, 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 Pengshuai Wang (Eriskirch, Germany), Ivonne Trenz (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Florian Pahn (Ravensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A half-bridge having power connections and signal connections shaped from a leadframe, the signal connections electrically connected to semiconductor switching elements so that they can be switched by the signal connections, and the power connections are electrically ...