US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 8 for "Integrated circuit and method of operating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,182, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of operating the same" was invented by Bei-Shing Lien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Szu-Lin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit is provided, which includes a first temperature-sensitive device and a second temperature-sensitive device. The first temperature-sensitive device is configured to generate a first bias current which monotonically increases in accordance with an absolute temperature, and generate a first voltage based on the first bias current. The second temp...