ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,854, issued on June 9, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Shuhei Takagiwa (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroshi Furutani (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeshi Seike (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a semiconductor device includes one or more first subcontacts electrically conducted to a substrate. At least one of the one or more first subcontacts is formed in an element arrangement region, and has a lower impedance than the substrate. Preferably, at least one of the one or more first subcontacts is adjacent to a circuit element formed in the element arrangement...