ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,585, issued on June 10, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Shunya Nagata (Tokyo) and Kouji Satou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology capable of initializing data in memory cells at a relatively high speed while suppressing an area increase. Based on a fact that the reset signal is turned to a high level, a control circuit of a semiconductor device turns a first transistor to an OFF state, a plurality of word lines to a selection state, a precharge circuit to the OFF state, column switches for writing to an ON state, and column switches for reading to th...