ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,469, issued on May 27, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo), Hiroki Komagata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiro Komatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinya Sasagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Hamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasumasa Yamane (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shota Mizukami (Hokkai-do, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a semiconductor device with less variations in characteristics. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit region and a second circuit region over a substrate, where the first circuit region includes a plurality ...