US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 24 for "Power switch circuit, IC structure of power switch circuit, and method of forming IC structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,734, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power switch circuit, IC structure of power switch circuit, and method of forming IC structure" was invented by Tzung-Yo Hung (Chiayi County, Taiwan), Pin-Dai Sue (Tainan, Taiwan), Chien-Chi Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Wei Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes: an integrated circuit module; a first field-effect transistor coupled between the integrated circuit module and a first reference voltage, and controlled by a first control signal; and a second field-effect tr...