US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 14 for "Phase interpolator layout" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,592, issued on July 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Phase interpolator layout" was invented by Wei Shuo Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei Chih Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits, devices, and methods relating to a phase interpolator are described herein. The phase interpolator may include a first plurality of functional units and a second plurality of functional units, and may be controlled, in part, by an encoding scheme. The phase interpolator may be designed to have a layout such that a turn-on resistance across the first plurality of functional units in re...