US Patent Issued to ROHM on Feb. 17 for "Power module with improved conductive paths" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,708, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power module with improved conductive paths" was invented by Kenichi Onodera (Kyoto, Japan) and Soichiro Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module includes a first end power semiconductor element and a second end power semiconductor element. A first sum is a sum of a path length between the gate electrode of the first end power semiconductor element and a first control terminal and a path length between the source electrode of the first end power semiconductor element and a first detection terminal. A second sum is a sum of a path lengt...