ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,659, issued on May 20, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Kosuke Yayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique capable of detecting a substrate bias voltage at a low power consumption is provided. The technique including: a voltage boost circuit outputting a boost voltage based on a first clock signal having a first frequency; a voltage drop circuit outputting a drop voltage based on a second clock signal having a second frequency; and a logic circuit block comparing the first frequency and the second frequency and outputting a comparison result between the first frequ...