ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,951, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit and arithmetic system" was invented by Radu Berdan (Shinagawa, Japan), Daisuke Miyashita (Kawasaki, Japan) and Jun Deguchi (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, in a semiconductor integrated circuit, a second switch has a first end connected to a first end of a capacitive element and a second end connected to a node of a reference potential. A third switch has a first end connected to the first end of the capacitive element and a second end connected to an input node of an amplifier circuit. A control...