ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,681, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Standby current detection circuit" was invented by Bo-Lun Wu (Taichung, Taiwan), Tse-Mian Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Po-Yen Hsu (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A standby current detection circuit includes multiple first transistors. The first transistors are coupled in series to form a first detection circuit string, where N is a positive integer. The first detection circuit string is disposed on a scribe lane of a wafer, and the first detection circuit string is operated in a standby state and serves as a test medium for a stand...