ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,822, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Semiconductor device with improved control circuit pattern placement" was invented by Tomoya Hirata (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a cooling base board and an insulated circuit substrate. On a front surface of an insulated board on the insulated circuit substrate, a high potential circuit pattern on which a semiconductor chip is mounted, an intermediate potential circuit pattern on which a semiconductor chip is mounted, a low potential circuit pattern, and a control circuit pattern are disposed so as to...