ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,546, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and three-phase inverter comprising the same" was invented by NackYong Joo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dae Hwan Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungyeop Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Youngkyun Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghee Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of gate electrodes disposed on the upper surface portion of the semiconductor substrate and spaced apart from each other, a pluralit...