ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,826, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yasuyuki Morishita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an input/output cell, an IO power supply cell, a core power supply cell, and a core logic circuit arranged on a chip, and the core power supply cell includes an ESD protection circuit. The input/output cell includes a level shifter circuit and the level shifter circuit is arranged in the input/output cell. The core logic circuit is arranged outside the input/output cell. The core power supply cell is not arranged in the same row as the ...