ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,168, issued on May 6, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Wenzhen Wang (Yokohama, Japan), Hirotaka Takeno (Yokohama, Japan) and Atsushi Okamoto (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a first ground line, a switch circuit connected to the first and the second power supply line, and a switch control circuit connected to the first ground line and the first power supply line. The switch circuit includes a first and a second transistor of a first conductive type. A first gate electrode of the...