ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,039, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Onuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device with a novel structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory cells each including a transistor and a capacitor, and capacitors included in adjacent memory cells are provided to overlap with each other. A first capacitor included in a first memory cell is provided so as to partly overlap with a second memory cell adjacent to the first memory cell. A se...