US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 22 for "Semiconductor device including electrodes with identical potential" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,825, issued on April 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Semiconductor device including electrodes with identical potential" was invented by Manabu Yanagihara (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Sato (Toyama, Japan), Hiroto Yamagiwa (Hyogo, Japan) and Masahiro Hikita (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first transistor disposed above the semiconductor substrate and including a first source electrode, a first gate region, and a first drain electrode; and a second transistor disposed above the semiconductor substrate and in...