ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,262, issued on July 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Semiconductor device having drive circuit configured to output voltages applied to plurality of gate electrodes" was invented by Junpei Takaishi (Kariya-city, Japan) and Yusuke Masumoto (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor device, a semiconductor element having a plurality of gate electrodes including a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode. An electrical connection member is electrically connected to a front surface electrode of the semiconductor element. A cell region of the semiconductor element includes a first c...