ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,981, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Power electronics module" was invented by Manuel Raimann (Salem, Germany) and Pengshuai Wang (Eriskirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronics module includes a printed circuit board populated with numerous components of the power electronics module. Power semiconductors and DC and AC connecting elements are either placed adjacently to one another on an organic insulator, and each thermally and mechanically connected to a heat sink through the organic insulator, or the DC and AC connecting elements are placed between the pow...