ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,581, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit including connection line" was invented by Jaeha Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jintae Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Keunho Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dongyeon Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes: a first cell arranged in a first row extending in a first direction and performing a first function, a second cell arranged in the first row and performing a second function, a third cell arranged in a second row extending in the first direction and performing the first ...