ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,669, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Semiconductor device coupled to a temperture detection element for correction of the temperture signal" was invented by Yuichi Ito (Nagano, Japan) and Kazuhiro Matsunami (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit having a first resistor configuring a voltage divider circuit, a sensing resistor configured to measure a sheet resistance having a same attribute as that of the first resistor, a temperature detection circuit configured to detect a value of a first temperature, a storage circuit conf...