US Patent Issued to LAPIS Technology on Dec. 30 for "Semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,153, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LAPIS Technology Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device" was invented by Hiroyuki Tanikawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor device 100, at least one of a first transistor and a second transistor that supply a second voltage in a step-down circuit stepping down a first voltage to the second voltage and outputting the second voltage from an output portion is configured such that the number of second contacts of a source electrode which is connected to a ground voltage or is supplied with the first voltage is larger than ...