US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 18 for "Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,535, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" was invented by Yueh Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Hsuan Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ming-Xiang Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuang-Ching Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flip-flop includes a first input circuit, a first NAND logic gate, a first stacked gate circuit, a first NOR logic gate, a first output circuit and a first set buffer circuit. The first input circuit is coupled to a first node. The first NAND logic gate is coupled between the first and second n...