US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Feb. 24 for "Charge pump circuits and methods for operating the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,642, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Charge pump circuits and methods for operating the same" was invented by Wan-Hsueh Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes first and second transistors coupled in series, respective gate terminals of which are coupled to a first node to receive a first signal through a first capacitor; third and fourth transistors coupled in series, respective gate terminals of which are coupled to a second node to receive a second signal logically inverse to the first signal through a second capacitor; a fifth tran...