US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on Oct. 7 for "Semiconductor device and physical quantity sensor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,041, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and physical quantity sensor device" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakajima (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device, including: a thermistor for temperature detection; a series resistor selection circuit including a series resistor group connected in series with the thermistor, the series resistor selection circuit being configured to select a series resistor from the series resistor group according to a selection signal; an analog/digital (A/D) converter that performs A/D conversion on a divided voltage ob...