ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,819, issued on Nov. 4, 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: "In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a cell having no logical function placed in an end row of a plurality of cell rows includes: a third transistor opposed to a transistor of a cell adjacent in the Y direction; a third buried power line supplying VSS placed on the same side of the third transistor as the transistor of the adjacent cell; and a fourth buried power line supplying VDD placed on the opposite side of the third transistor from ...