ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,138, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device and operating method thereof" was invented by Kuang-Wei Cheng (Tainan, Taiwan), Chao An Shen (Tainan, Taiwan) and Tai Jung Hsu (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first inductor, a second inductor and at least one varactor. The first inductor is configured to output at least one output signal. The second inductor is coupled to the first inductor with transformer coupling. The at least one varactor is coupled t...