US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 9 for "Input buffer circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,029, issued on June 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Input buffer circuit" was invented by Yu-Kai Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Hui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes an upper threshold circuit configured to set a logic level of a first enabling signal, a lower threshold circuit configured to set a logic level of a second enabling signal, and a control circuit configured to change an output voltage signal in response to a condition that the logic level of the first enabling signal and the logic le...