US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 3 for "Protection circuit" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,448, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Protection circuit" was invented by Chien-Yao Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes first to fifth regions, first and second resistive loads. The first region is coupled to a first reference voltage terminal. The first to third regions operate as a first transistor. The fourth region is coupled to a second reference voltage terminal. The fourth to fifth regions operate as a second transistor. The first resistive load couples the second region to the second reference voltage terminal...