ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,736, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Integrated circuit device" was invented by Takanori Iwawaki (Suwa, Japan), Motoaki Nishimura (Chino, Japan), Yoshihiko Nimura (Hara, Japan) and Katsumi Inoue (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a heating element, and a control circuit configured to control flow of a current through the heating element. An outer shape of the integrated circuit device has a first side and a second side intersecting the first side. An outer shape of the heating element has a short side and a long side. A distance between the long side o...