US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 4 for "Vertical semiconductor swiching elements with sense cell region" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,768, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vertical semiconductor swiching elements with sense cell region" was invented by Takeshi Hagino (Kariya, Japan) and Kenta Gouda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor device, vertical semiconductor switching elements having a same structure are provided in a main cell region and a sense cell region. The sense cell region is defined as a quadrangular region surrounding an operating region of the semiconductor switching element formed as a sense cell, with (i) a lateral dimension of the sense cell region defined along one direction of the main...