US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC NANJING, TSMC CHINA on Dec. 16 for "Integrated circuit and an operation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,412, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan), TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China) and TSMC CHINA COMPANY Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Integrated circuit and an operation method thereof" was invented by Kai Zhou (Hefei, China), Lei Pan (Shanghai), Ya-Qi Ma (Shanghai) and Zhang-Ying Yan (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a control circuit and first to second voltage generation circuits. The control circuit is coupled between a first voltage terminal providing a first supply voltage and a first node coupled to a first capacitive unit. The...