US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on July 28 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,480, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Ryota Suzuki (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes lower guard rings and upper guard rings. An upper portion of each of the lower guard rings overlaps a lower portion of the corresponding upper guard ring. A lower inner peripheral surface of each of the lower guard rings is offset to one side in a predetermined direction with respect to an upper inner peripheral surface of the corresponding upper gua...