ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,075, issued on July 29, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Masanari Fujii (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device having: a semiconductor device unit including an output element and a sensing element; and a control circuit. When the output element is in an on state, the control circuit connects a high potential terminal of a sensing element to a high potential terminal of an output element and ungrounds a low potential terminal of the sensing element to cause the sensing element to function as a current sensing element for detecting a curren...