ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,427, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Masaomi Miyazawa (Tokyo) and Satoshi Miyahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first bus bar, a second bus bar, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The first terminal includes one or more planar portions, and the second terminal includes one or more planar portions. The one or more planar portions of the first terminal and the one or more planar portions of the second terminal are arranged parallel to and opposite each other. One of the first bus bar and the second bus bar cover...