US Patent Issued to Kioxia on April 7 for "Semiconductor device for short-circuiting nodes connected to a word line control circuit and control method for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. RE50,856, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device for short-circuiting nodes connected to a word line control circuit and control method for the same" was invented by Takeshi Nakano (Kawasaki, Japan) and Mikio Ogawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first voltage generator, a second voltage generator, a first MOS transistor, and a controller. The first voltage generator outputs a first voltage to a first node. The second voltage generator outputs a second voltage to a second node. The first MOS transistor is capable of short-c...