ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,122, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Teruaki Nagahara (Tokyo) and Kosuke Yamaguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a technique capable of suppressing heat occurring in a second semiconductor switching element. A semiconductor device includes a parallel circuit in which a first semiconductor switching element and a second semiconductor switching element are parallelly connected and a gate drive circuit. When a state continuing time which is a time during which the state of the input signal continues is equal to or larger than a t...