US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC CHINA on Nov. 4 for "Failsafe circuit, layout, device, and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,087, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC CHINA COMPANY Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Failsafe circuit, layout, device, and method" was invented by Zhen Tang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Lei Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Miranda Ma (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a reference node having a reference voltage level, a first node that carries an input signal having a first voltage level or the reference voltage level, a second node that carries a power supply voltage, a voltage regulator including a source follower that outputs a gate signal having a fraction...