ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,384, issued on July 29, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Hidetoshi Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, first and second interconnects extending in the X direction are formed in a metal interconnect layer. The first and second interconnects are placed on the opposite sides of each resistor element in the X direction and connected to the resistor element. The first interconnect is connected to PAD, and a third interconnect is connected to VSS. In an ESD protection diode, an anode and a cathode are ...