ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,834, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yo Habu (Tokyo) and Akihisa Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a P-side driving circuit and an N-side driving circuit respectively driving a P-side switching device and an N-side switching device which are connected to configure a half bridge; and a N-side power supply generation circuit generating a power supply voltage for the N-side driving circuit from a power supply voltage for the P-side switching device."
The patent was filed on May 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/736...