ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,380, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Ei Nagahama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a logical cell; a spare cell; and a potential fix cell outputting a reference potential used for fixing a potential of an input wiring of the spare cell. The potential fix cell includes: a mutual connection wiring; a first wiring; a second wiring; and an output wiring. The second wiring has a power supply potential, and is wired at a cell boundary between the potential fix cell and an adjacent different cell. The first wiring is wired insid...