US Patent Issued to SOCIONEXT on April 22 for "Power supply line arrangement having power switch circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,542, issued on April 22, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Power supply line arrangement having power switch circuit" was invented by Hirotaka Takeno (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Okamoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Toshio Hino (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes first and second power supply lines formed in a first wiring layer and extending in a first direction; third and fourth power supply lines formed in a second wiring layer, extending in a second direction, and connected to the first and second power supply lines, respectively; a fifth power supply line formed in the first wir...