ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,945, issued on June 10, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Toshio Hino (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a clock buffer cell that is a standard cell transmitting a clock signal. The clock buffer cell has an input terminal and an output terminal. A first metal interconnect including the output terminal is located in a layer above a second metal interconnect including the input terminal and greater in width than the second metal interconnect."
The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2022, under Applicatio...