ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,954, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hyeokjong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first counter latch circuit configured to receive a count code and to latch the count code according to a comparison result signal; and a second counter latch circuit configured to receive the count code from the first counter latch circuit, and to latch the count code by using a plurality of first latches. The first latches are coupled in series to each other an...