US Patent Issued to United Microelectronics on Feb. 24 for "Over drive circuit and input/output circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,735, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Over drive circuit and input/output circuit" was invented by Wei Hang Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ya-Nan Mou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tai Chi Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An over drive circuit and an input/output circuit are provided. The over drive circuit includes multiple P-type transistors connected to each other in series and a first N-type transistor connected to the P-type transistors in series. One end of the over drive circuit is coupled to a first voltage. Transistors connected in parallel connected to the first N-type...