ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,121, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ELDOR CORPORATION S.P.A. (Orsenigo, Italy).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Javier Eduardo Pereira Rivas (Turin, Italy), Luca Zai (Turin, Italy), Pasquale Forte (Castiglione d'Orcia, Italy) and Michele Roman (Noventa di Piave, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including at least one substrate, a plurality of connection pairs, each equipped with a first connection electrode and a second connection electrode and connected to the terminals of a phase or to the ends of a phase fraction, one or more first control electrodes operatively placed between the connection ...