US Patent Issued to RENESAS ELECTRONICS on April 8 for "Semiconductor device and semiconductor system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,400, issued on April 8, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device and semiconductor system" was invented by Shinji Tanaka (Tokyo), Yohei Sawada (Tokyo) and Masao Morimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a memory array having a plurality of associative memory cells arranged in a matrix form for storing entries. The memory array is divided into a plurality of memory blocks for sequentially performing a retrieval operation along a column direction, and further includes a plurality of match lines corresponding to the respective memory blocks and provided correspondingly...