US Patent Issued to Rohm on July 28 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,812, issued on July 28, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Tomohira Kikuchi (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroaki Matsubara (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshizo Osumi (Kyoto, Japan), Moe Yamaguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryohei Umeno (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor control element, a first drive element, a second drive element and a first insulating element. The first drive element is spaced apart from the semiconductor control element in a first direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the semiconductor control element and receives a signal transm...