ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,350, issued on May 20, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Takeshi Imamura (Kyoto, Japan), Masaaki Hirako (Shiga, Japan) and Takashi Ohashi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer; first and second vertical MOS transistors provided in the semiconductor layer; a metal layer in contact with and connected to an entire back face of the semiconductor layer; and a support bonded to the back face side of the metal layer via a conductive adhesive. In a plan view, the support is larger in area than the semiconduc...