US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 26 for "Semiconductor device and method of monitoring a temperature thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,712, issued on May 26, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method of monitoring a temperature thereof" was invented by Szu-Lin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Bei-Shing Lien (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Wen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chin-Ho Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jaw-Juinn Horng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yung-Chow Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a temperature-independent current generator that generates a reference current substantially independent of temperature and a mirror current that is a substantial duplicate of the reference cur...