US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 3 for "Semiconductor device having output buffer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,449, issued on March 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Semiconductor device having output buffer" was invented by Mieko Kojima (Hino, Japan), Kazuyuki Morishige (Sagamihara, Japan), Tetsuya Arai (Sagamihara, Japan) and Guangcan Chen (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide an apparatus including a semiconductor substrate having source regions and regions alternately arranged in a first direction; gate electrodes between the source regions and the drain regions; a first wiring layer including first conductive patterns covering the source regions and second conductive patterns cov...