US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics on Nov. 3 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,796, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Koichi Takeda (Tokyo) and Takahiro Shimoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a variable-resistance memory cell array, a sense amplifier electrically connected to the variable-resistance memory cell array, and a clamp voltage generation circuit electrically connected to the sense amplifier. The sense amplifier includes an amplification unit that amplifies a voltage at a sense node, a first clamp circuit having first and second NMOS transistors whose gate terminals are electrically connected...