ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,241, issued on May 12, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device having switching elements with two different current capacities" was invented by Toshinari Hirai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor device, a plurality of first switching element chips and a plurality of first diode chips constituting a first inverter circuit, and a plurality of second switching element chips and a plurality of second diode chips constituting a second inverter circuit are mounted on a printed wiring board incorporated into a package. At this point, a current capacity of each of the plurality of second ...