US Patent Issued to Socionext on Sept. 15 for "Semiconductor integrated circuit device with well tap cells" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,036, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Socionext Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit device with well tap cells" was invented by Masanobu Hirose (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory cell includes a power supply line extending in a Y-direction and configured to supply a power supply voltage. A well tap cell includes: a power supply line extending in the Y-direction, electrically connected to the power supply line, and configured to supply the power supply voltage; and a line formed in an M1 line layer, extending in an X-direction, electrically connected to the power supply line, and configu...