US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC CHINA on July 15 for "Integrated circuit" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,022, issued on July 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC CHINA COMPANY Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Integrated circuit" was invented by Ya-Qi Ma (Shanghai), Lei Pan (Shanghai) and Zhen Tang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided and includes the operation below: discharging electrostatic charges from a pad to a first voltage terminal through a first active region coupled to the pad and a second active region coupled between the first active region and the first voltage terminal, in which the first active region and the second active region are the same conductivity typ...