US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on June 9 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,036, issued on June 9, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Isao Saito (Matsumoto-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device for operating an inductive load, including: a switching element having a control terminal, a low potential terminal and a high potential terminal; a drive circuit configured to apply a control voltage to the control terminal of the switching element to switching-drive the switching element, and operate the inductive load connected to the switching element; an extracting circuit configured to extract control terminal charges from t...