US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS on Sept. 16 for "Semiconductor device and method of driving the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,802, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and method of driving the same" was invented by Takumi Mikawa (Shiga, Japan), Koji Katayama (Nara, Japan) and Ryutaro Yasuhara (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes variable resistance elements on a semiconductor substrate. Each of the variable resistance elements includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a variable resistance layer that is sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode and that stores a resistance value that is continuously variable. The variable r...