US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 30 for "Device and method for generating a temperature-independent reference voltage" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,839, issued on June 30, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device and method for generating a temperature-independent reference voltage" was invented by Yi Chen Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Bei-Shing Lien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Szu-Lin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage generator includes a temperature-dependent voltage generator and a reference voltage node. The temperature-dependent voltage generator generates a voltage that increases with temperature and includes a first transistor stack and a second transistor stack, each of which has a first source/drain terminal an...