ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,421, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Takuya Shiraishi (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a package, a control terminal group including at least three control terminals inputting a control signal to a semiconductor element and projecting from a side surface of a first side out of the first side and a second side opposite to the first side of the package, and a main terminal group including at least three main terminals energizing the semiconductor element with a main current and projecting from a side surface of t...