US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Semiconductor device and equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,588, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device and equipment" was invented by Hiroaki Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a technique advantageous to an improvement in performance of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first monocrystalline semiconductor layer on which a first semiconductor element is arranged, a second monocrystalline semiconductor layer on which a second semiconductor element is arranged, and a thin film transistor electrically connected to the first semiconductor element without an interve...