US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Oct. 7 for "Driving method of semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,793, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Driving method of semiconductor device" was invented by Yuki Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Onuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takanori Matsuzaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device with high reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a memory cell including a first ferroelectric capacitor and a reference memory cell including a second ferroelectric capacitor. In a first period, first binary data is written to the memory cell, and first reference binary data is written to the reference memor...