US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC NANJING on March 17 for "Multi-bit level shifter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,569, issued on March 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Multi-bit level shifter" was invented by Jing Ding (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Zhang-Ying Yan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Qingchao Meng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Ting Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: first and second input circuits in a central region and correspondingly configured to operate in a first voltage domain; first and second single bit level shifters (SBLSs) correspondingly in first and second regions at first and second sides of the c...