US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics on July 28 for "Semiconductor device and control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,774, issued on July 28, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device and control system" was invented by Yoshimasa Uchinuma (Tokyo) and Takehiro Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first source electrode coupled to a first source terminal by a connection portion and having first and second slits on two opposite sides, a second source electrode coupled to a second source terminal, a Kelvin pad formed independently of the first source electrode, a power MOSFET coupled between the first source electrode and a drain terminal, a sense MOSFET coupled between the second so...