US Patent Issued to Rohm on March 17 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,563, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Naoki Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a switching element including a parallel connection circuit of a first transistor configured as a field-effect transistor and a second transistor configured as an insulated-gate bipolar transistor; and a driver circuit configured to drive the switching element according to an input control signal. When turning the switching element from a first state to a second state, the driver circuit turns, at different timings, the first transi...