ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,049, issued on June 9, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Logic circuit formed using unipolar transistor, and semiconductor device" was invented by Hiroki Inoue (Atsugi, Japan), Munehiro Kozuma (Atsugi, Japan), Takeshi Aoki (Ebina, Japan), Shuji Fukai (Atsugi, Japan), Fumika Akasawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Shintaro Harada (Kawasaki, Japan) and Sho Nagao (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device using unipolar transistors, in which high and low levels are expressed using high and low power supply potentials, is provided. The semiconductor device includes four transistors, ...