US Patent Issued to ROHM on July 1 for "Switching device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,154, issued on July 1, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Switching device" was invented by Yuki Nakano (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroyuki Sakairi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching device according to the present invention is a switching device for switching a load by on-off control of voltage, and includes an SiC semiconductor layer where a current path is formed by on-control of the voltage, a first electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer, and a second electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer for conducting with the first electrode due to the format...