ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,243, issued on June 2, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit and electronic device" was invented by Takayuki Iwai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor integrated circuit includes first and second circuits, a smoothing circuit, and a control circuit. The first circuit is configured to generate a first current with a power supply voltage and output the first current to an output terminal. The second circuit is configured to divide the power supply voltage and output a second current corresponding to a divided voltage to the output terminal. The second current is greater than the first c...