US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Sept. 15 for "Semiconductor device, electronic device, and method for driving semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,233, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, electronic device, and method for driving semiconductor device" was invented by Susumu Kawashima (Atsugi, Japan) and Tomoaki Atsumi (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device capable of performing authentication in a short time and a driving method thereof are provided. A semiconductor device including a light-emitting apparatus and an imaging apparatus and a driving method thereof. The imaging apparatus includes pixels arranged in a matrix and a row driver including a shift register cir...