US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Jan. 20 for "Semiconductor device and programmable macro circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,117, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and programmable macro circuit" was invented by Yu-Wei Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Meng-Sheng Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp circuit. The semiconductor device includes a voltage divider, a cascoded inverter, and a discharge circuit. The voltage divider is electrically coupled between a power supply voltage and an output voltage of the semiconductor device. The cascoded inverter is e...