US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 2 for "Multi-stage bit line pre-charge" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,704, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-stage bit line pre-charge" was invented by Wei-Cheng Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kao-Cheng Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Cheng Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Yuan Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Chen Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei Min Chan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yen-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are provided for a memory circuit that includes a bit cell responsive to a bit line signal line and a bit line bar signal line configured to store a bit of data. A pre-charge circuit is configured to charge on...