US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on June 16 for "Semiconductor device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,005, issued on June 16, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and electronic device" was invented by Takeshi Aoki (Ebina, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kurokawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Munehiro Kozuma (Atsugi, Japan) and Takuro Kanemura (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device with reduced power consumption that can perform a product-sum operation is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second circuits, and the second circuit includes first and second switches, a current/voltage converter circuit, and a first transistor. The first circuit i...