US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Voltage reference circuit and method for providing reference voltage" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,877, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Voltage reference circuit and method for providing reference voltage" was invented by Yen-Ting Wang (Round Rock, Texas), Alan Roth (Leander, Texas), Eric Soenen (Austin, Texas), Alexander Kalnitsky (San Francisco), Liang-Tai Kuo (Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Hsin-Li Cheng (Hsin Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Voltage reference circuits are provided. A voltage reference circuit includes a transistor, a flipped-gate transistor, a first current mirror unit, a second current mirror unit, and an output ...