US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 30 for "Semiconductor device and semiconductor component including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,411, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and semiconductor component including the same" was invented by Masayuki Kuroda (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Sato (Toyama, Japan), Manabu Yanagihara (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Okita (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Hikita (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer on the substrate; a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer; finger-shaped source electrodes on the second nitride semiconductor layer;...