ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,503, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device and method for controlling the same" was invented by Masanori Tsukuda (Tokyo), Shinya Soneda (Tokyo) and Koichi Nishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor device that is easily controlled. The semiconductor device includes a first switching device and a second switching device that are connected in series between a first potential and a second potential lower than the first potential, wherein each of the first and second switching devices includes a transistor region, and a diode region electrically connected ...