ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,185, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Kazuki Koda (Tokyo), Shuhei Yokoyama (Tokyo), Naoki Ikeda (Tokyo) and Shogo Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: semiconductor elements; a package sealing the semiconductor elements and being rectangular in a top view; control terminals protruding from a first side of the package; output terminals protruding from a second side facing the first side of the package; and a recessed portion formed in a third side adjacent to the first side and the second side of the package, wherein a...