ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,330, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Masakazu Baba (Matsumoto, Japan) and Shinsuke Harada (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device having a connecting region between an active region and an edge region. The semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor layer provided on the semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer, a plurality of first semiconductor regions selectively provided in the second semiconductor layer, a plurality of first ...