US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, National Tsing Hua University on Aug. 25 for "Storage circuit with gain-cell and self-refresh unit connected between gain-cell and latch circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,863, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Storage circuit with gain-cell and self-refresh unit connected between gain-cell and latch circuit" was invented by Jui-Jen Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ping-Chun Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Win-San Khwa (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Meng-Fan Chang (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this disclosure, a storage circuit is provided. The storage circuit includes a gain-cell, a self-refresh unit, and a latch circuit. The gain-cell is configured to store first data in a gate o...