ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,337, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Eiichi Hirai (Kyoto, Japan), Tsubasa Inoue (Kyoto, Japan), Hironao Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan) and Yusuke Ito (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device has a shape of a rectangular in which the side length in a first direction is greater than or equal to the side length in a second direction in a plan view, and includes 2n+1 obround first source pads of a first vertical MOS transistor that are arranged in stripes at positions within a first area and extend in the second direction ...