US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on March 3 for "Semiconductor device having a temperature sensor, a transistor, and a diode" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,637, issued on March 3, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor device having a temperature sensor, a transistor, and a diode" was invented by Masahiro Taoka (Matsumoto-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a transistor section and a diode section, the semiconductor device having: a temperature sensing section; a neighboring transistor section adjacent to the temperature sensing section; a neighboring diode section adjacent to the temperature sensing section; and a first non-neighboring diode section that is not adjacent to the temperature sensing section, wherein...