ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,228, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Data latch circuit and semiconductor storage device" was invented by Tomoya Sanuki (Mie, Japan), Koji Kohara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keisuke Nakatsuka (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data latch circuit includes a first transistor of a first conductivity type and a second transistor of the first conductivity type, and a third transistor of a second conductivity type and a fourth transistor of the second conductivity type. The third and fourth transistors are controlled to perform a first control operation to store data in the data latch circuit and to perform ...