US Patent Issued to Rohm on June 2 for "Semiconductor device, electronic device, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,934, issued on June 2, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, electronic device, and vehicle" was invented by Naoki Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: an output transistor of a split-gate type configured to have a plurality of channel regions controlled individually according to a plurality of gate control signals; an active clamp circuit configured to limit the terminal-to-terminal voltage across the output transistor to or below a predetermined clamp voltage after a control signal turns to a logic level requesting the output transistor to be off; a de...