ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,646, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Mingyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doobock Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngchul Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first power node configured to supply a first power supply voltage, a pull-up circuit electrically connected between the first power node and an output node that is configured to output a signal, and a controller configured to output a pull-up control code to the pull-up circuit. The pull-up ...