US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 16 for "Semiconductor device capable of switching operation voltage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,926, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Semiconductor device capable of switching operation voltage" was invented by Yuki Miura (Kanagawa, Japan), Moeha Shibuya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Saaya Izumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus that includes first, second, third and fourth circuit regions arranged in a first direction in numerical order. The first circuit region includes a first global power supply line extending in a second direction vertical to the first direction and a first local power supply line, the first local power supply line being branched from the first g...