US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on May 12 for "Switching element" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,392, issued on May 12, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Switching element" was invented by Jun Saito (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching element includes a gate electrode and a source electrode disposed in each of trenches provided in a semiconductor substrate. A longitudinal direction of the trench is defined as a first direction, and the trenches are spaced from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Each of the trenches extends in the first direction while being displaced in the se...