ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,680, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device and operating method thereof" was invented by Yao-Jen Kuo (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Wei-Yu Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Ming-Hung Chang (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Ching-Wei Wu (Nantou County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a bit line pre-charger and a buffer circuit. The bit line pre-charger is configured to charge at least one bit line when a first control signal has a first voltage level. The buffer circuit is configured to generate the first control signal. During a firs...