ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,448, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Tohru Shirakawa (Matsumoto, Japan), Yasunori Agata (Matsumoto, Japan), Naoki Saegusa (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kaname Mitsuzuka (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor device including: a sensing portion that is provided on the semiconductor substrate and that is configured to detect predetermined physical information; a sensing pad portion that is provided above an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and that is connecte...