ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,245, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Katsumi Satoh (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The semiconductor device includes: a transistor, and a body diode included in the transistor so that the body diode is anti-parallel to the transistor, and a diode anti-parallel connected to the bidirectional current-conduction device, wherein the bidirectional current-conduction device allows a first current and a second current to flow, and allows at least the second current to switch between conduction and non-conduction, the first current flowing in a first direction ...