ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,826, issued on June 23, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Voltage reference circuit" was invented by Bei-Shing Lien (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Szu-Lin Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bandgap voltage reference circuit is provided. In one example, a cell includes a first device including a first plurality of MOSFETs connected in series The cell further includes a second device including a second plurality of MOSFETs connected in series. The second device connects in series with the first device. The second plurality of MOSFETs has a second Vt that is higher than th...