US Patent Issued to Socionext on Nov. 3 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,244, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Socionext Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Wenzhen Wang (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Okamoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Hirotaka Takeno (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a peripheral circuit area, a bit cell area, and a separating area positioned between the peripheral circuit area and the bit cell. A first power switch circuit for the peripheral circuit area is connected to a first power supply line, and a second power supply line and a first ground line provided on the substrate; and connects the first power supply line and th...