US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC CHINA on March 3 for "Level shifting circuit manufacturing method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,862, issued on March 3, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC CHINA COMPANY Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Level shifting circuit manufacturing method" was invented by Yaqi Ma (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Lei Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and JunKui Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an integrated circuit (IC) layout diagram includes defining first through fourth PMOS transistors in an n-well region, arranging a plurality of conductive regions whereby a bias circuit is configured to include the first and second PMOS transistors and a level shifter is configured to include t...