ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,708, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device and apparatus" was invented by Koichi Iwao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of memories arranged on a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each of the memories being a volatile memory; a plurality of repair circuits configured to repair the memory cell array; a selection circuit configured to select, from the plurality of repair circuits, a repair circuit to be connected to a memory included in the plurality of memories; and a h...