ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,420, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Semiconductor device with sense element" was invented by Joachim Weyers (Hohenkirchen, Germany) and Franz Hirler (Isen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a transistor array and a sense pad. The transistor array includes a plurality of transistor cells electrically connected in parallel between a source electrode and a drain structure. The drain structure is formed in a semiconductor portion based on a single-crystalline wide bandgap material. A sense element formed from the wide bandgap material includes at lea...