ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,666, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device with bent terminals" was invented by Kazuki Koda (Tokyo), Shuhei Yokoyama (Tokyo), Naoki Ikeda (Tokyo), Shogo Shibata (Tokyo) and Keitaro Ichikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element; a mold member covering the semiconductor element; and a first terminal and a second terminal electrically connected to the semiconductor element, protruding from one side of the mold member, and alternating along the one side. The first terminal includes a first bend, and the second terminal includes...