US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Oct. 14 for "Semiconductor integrated circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,126, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit" was invented by Kayo Mori (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouichi Tashiro (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akihiro Fukushima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a switch circuit that includes a plurality of first switch circuits each allowing a first current to flow and a plurality of second switch circuits each allowing a second current larger than the first current to flow, wherein each of the plurality of first switch circuits and the plurality of second switch circuits are configured to switch between a...