ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,050, issued on June 9, was assigned to VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Logic circuit" was invented by Po-Yuan Tang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yang-Sen Yeh (Baoshan Township, Taiwan), Yu-Chuan Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hsuan-Chi Su (Qionglin Township, Taiwan) and Chung-Wei Tsai (Zhubei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logic circuit including a first PMOS transistor, a second PMOS transistor, and an NMOS transistor is provided. The first PMOS transistor is coupled to an input-output pad. The second PMOS transistor is coupled to the first PMOS transistor in series between the input-output pad ...