ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,448, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit device and electronic device including the same" was invented by Dokyung Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wooseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonsik Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chanyoung Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a substrate, and a unit cell on the substrate. The unit cell defines a unit cell area including at least two discrete devices. The unit cell includes a routing layer configured to route a signal and a voltage to the at least two discrete devi...