US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 7 for "Temperature sensor and memory device having same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,042, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Temperature sensor and memory device having same" was invented by Chia-Ming Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Kuang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Ching Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chien-Fu Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a memory and peripheral circuits with a temperature sensor used to automatically adjust operating voltages. The temperature sensor includes a reference circuit that generates a first reference with a first non-zero temperature coefficient and a second reference with a second temperatu...