ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,405, issued on July 22, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Taro Fukunaga (Yokohama, Japan), Masahisa Iida (Yokohama, Japan) and Toshihiro Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, first and second IO cell rows are placed in an IO region on a chip. IO cells in the first IO cell row are larger in plane area than IO cells in the second IO cell row. Pads connected to the IO cells in the first IO cell row are located closer to an outer edge of the chip than any pads connected to the IO cells in the second I...