ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,269, issued on March 31, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, display apparatus, data processing system, and control system of the semiconductor device" was invented by Yoshiyuki Kurokawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Masashi Fujita (Fuchu, Japan) and Kazuaki Ohshima (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device with a novel structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes a register. The register includes a flip-flop and a plurality of data retention circuits. The flip-flop includes a first transistor in which a semiconductor layer including a channel...