US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Feb. 10 for "Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus that are capable of increasing the effective channel width" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,394, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus that are capable of increasing the effective channel width" was invented by Akiko Honjo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An effective channel width is expanded. A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer having an active region demarcated by a separation region; and a field-effect transistor in which a pair of main electrode regions sandwiching a channel region are provided in the active region and a gate electrode is provided on the channel region. The active region h...