ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,584, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TDK-Micronas GmbH (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).

"Semiconductor chip with an integrated circuit" was invented by David Muthers (Denzlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor chip with an integrated circuit has supply voltage connectors and an output stage with an output for releasing an output signal. The output is connected via a drain-source line of a first self-closing insulated-gate field-effect transistor to an output connection for the output signal. The semiconductor chip has a clock signal generator fed from the supply voltage connections, its clock signal output ...