ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,629, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Tomoyuki Obata (Matsumoto, Japan) and Soichi Yoshida (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided, including: a semiconductor substrate; an active portion provided on the semiconductor substrate; a first well region and a second well region provided on the semiconductor substrate and arranged sandwiching the active portion in a top view; a peripheral well region provided on the semiconductor substrate and arranged enclosing the active portion in a top view; an intermediate well...