ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,650, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and electronic device" was invented by Takayuki Ikeda (Atsugi, Japan), Hitoshi Kunitake (Isehara, Japan), Hajime Kimura (Atsugi, Japan) and Haruyuki Baba (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device with low power consumption is provided. In a cascode circuit including a first transistor provided on a low power supply potential side and a second transistor provided on a high power supply potential side, a source or a drain of a third transistor and a capacitor are connected to a gate of the ...