ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,312, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Isaya Sobue (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an IO region of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, placed is an IO cell row including a signal IO cell and a power IO cell supplying a first power supply. The power IO cell includes first and second external terminals connected to an external connection pad and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device formed at least in a region between the first and second external terminals. The first external terminal is placed at a posit...