ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,455, issued on June 9, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Semiconductor device and overcurrent protection device" was invented by Shigeki Sato (Azumino-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device, including: an output element having a gate, the output element being configured to perform switching to thereby operate a load of the semiconductor device in accordance with a drive signal applied to the gate thereof; a current monitoring element having a gate and a sense emitter, the current monitoring element being configured to monitor a current flowing through the output element; and a voltag...