ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,590, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Junichi Uehara (Kariya, Japan), Takehiro Kato (Toyota, Japan), Tadashi Misumi (Nisshin, Japan) and Yusuke Yamashita (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having an active region in which a main switching element structure is formed, a current sense region in which a sense switching element structure is formed, and a peripheral region located around the active region and the current sense region. The semiconductor substrate is a 4H-SiC substrate having an off an...