US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 2 for "Voltage controlled oscillator and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,071, issued on June 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Voltage controlled oscillator and method" was invented by Chi-Hsien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ho-Hsiang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsien-Yuan Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Jin Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ying-Ta Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) includes a power supply source, a voltage source, a reference voltage node, first and second transistors, each including a source terminal coupled to the reference voltage node, and first through fourth conductive structures. The first conducti...