ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,091, issued on April 8, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Toshio Hino (Yokohama, Japan) and Junji Iwahori (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure attempts to provide a capacitor cell having a large capacitance value per unit area in a semiconductor integrated circuit device using a three-dimensional transistor device. A logic cell includes a three-dimensional transistor device. A capacitor cell includes a three-dimensional transistor device. A length of a portion, of a local interconnect, which protrudes from a three-dimensional d...