US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 16 for "Digital low-dropout voltage regulator" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,797, issued on June 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Digital low-dropout voltage regulator" was invented by Po-Yu Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Szu-Chun Tsao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jaw-Juinn Horng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an integrated circuit device includes multiple rows of functional cells, with each row having a cell height. At least one of rows of functional cells includes at least one digital low-dropout voltage regulator (DLVR) cell with the cell height for the row. The DLVR cell includes: an input terminal, an output terminal, a voltage sup...