ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,263, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
"Two-dimensional power clamp cell" was invented by Yung-Ju Wen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Bo-Shih Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a power clamp cell including a power clamping circuit, a power routing and a global routing is disclosed. The power routing has at least a first vertical metal line and a first horizontal metal line, and the power routing is implemented by using a first metal layer in semiconductor process. The ground routing has at least a second vertical metal line and a second horizonta...