ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,744, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Voltage generation circuit and semiconductor device using the same" was invented by Ji Hyo Kang (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Sung Kwon Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage generation circuit includes a global driver, a local driver, and a local voltage converter. The global driver changes the voltage level of a second voltage line based on the voltage levels of a first boundary voltage and a first voltage line and changes the voltage level of a fourth voltage line based on the voltage levels of a second boundary voltage an...