ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,412, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor apparatus and equipment" was invented by Kohei Matsumoto (Tokyo), Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Daisuke Yoshida (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor apparatus according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor component including a cell array and a plurality of wirings; and a semiconductor component including a plurality of pads connected to the semiconductor component including the cell array. A first row pad connected to a row wiring connected to a first cell and a second cell, a second row pad connected to a row wiring connec...