ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,727, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Voltage generation circuit and semiconductor device" was invented by Koji Ooiwa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage generation circuit includes a voltage dividing circuit, a first current path, a second current path, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, and a switching circuit. The first current path is in parallel with the voltage dividing circuit between a first node connected to a power source line and a second node. The second current path is in parallel with the voltage dividing circuit between a third node and a fourth node. The f...