US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Aug. 18 for "Semiconductor integrated circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. RE51,010, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit" was invented by Yoshinori Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a semiconductor integrated circuit, wherein a desired circuit is formed by combining and laying out a plurality of standard cells and connecting the cells together, of which the cell length, i.e., the gap between a pair of opposed sides, is standardized, the plurality of standard cells forming the desired circuit include complementary in-phase driven standard cells, each of which includes a plurality of complementary transistor pairs that are comp...