US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Sept. 30 for "Semiconductor device and operating method of semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,719, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and operating method of semiconductor device" was invented by Yuki Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiko Ishizu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a battery control circuit with a novel structure, a battery protection circuit with a novel structure, and a power storage device including the battery circuit. The semiconductor device includes n cell-balance circuits (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1). One secondary battery is electrically connected to one cell-balance circuit. The c...