ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,954, issued on April 22, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Masashi Fujita (Tokyo), Yutaka Shionoiri (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyoshi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetomo Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a semiconductor device that can maintain the connection relation between logic circuit units or the circuit configuration of each of the logic circuit units even after supply of power supply voltage is stopped. Another object is to provide a semiconductor device in which the connection relation between logic circuit ...