ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,552, issued on March 24, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Multi-chip semiconductor switching device" was invented by Rikihiro Maruyama (Matsumoto, Japan), Norihiro Komiyama (Matsumoto, Japan), Kunio Kobayashi (Azumino, Japan), Yuto Kobayashi (Matsumoto, Japan), Takahito Harada (Matsumoto, Japan), Hirohisa Oyama (Matsumoto, Japan), Masahiro Sasaki (Azumino, Japan) and Ryousuke Usui (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes first semiconductor chips that each include a first control electrode and a first output electrode, second semiconductor chips each include a second ...