US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC NANJING on March 25 for "Trim-based voltage regulator circuit and method" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,532, issued on March 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Trim-based voltage regulator circuit and method" was invented by Haohua Zhou (Fremont, Calif.), Tze-Chiang Huang (Saratoga, Calif.), Mei Hsu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yun-Han Lee (Baoshan Township, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage regulator includes a control circuit configured to output a plurality of enable signals, and a power stage including a plurality of phase circuits. Each phase circuit of the plurality of phase circuits includes a node, an inductor coupled bet...