ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,816, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Mitsuhiko Igarashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a local sensor including a transistor, arranged in proximity to a measurement target region in a semiconductor chip, and outputs a leak current of the transistor as a sensor signal according to a temperature in the measurement target region; a conversion circuit arranged on the semiconductor chip, and converting the sensor signal from the local sensor into a digital count value; and a circuit block arranged between the local sensor a...