US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Dec. 30 for "Integrated circuit device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,754, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Integrated circuit device" was invented by Haruki Kamikura (Chino, Japan) and Kinya Matsuda (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes: a semiconductor substrate set at a substrate potential; a rectifier circuit that rectifies an AC voltage by a rectifier element provided at the semiconductor substrate and outputs a rectified voltage; a BGR circuit which is provided at the semiconductor substrate and generates a reference voltage based on the rectified voltage, and a regulator that regulates the rectified voltage based on t...