ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,551, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of operating decoupling system, and method of fabricating same" was invented by Szu-Lin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Hsiang Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jaw-Juinn Horng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (of decoupling from voltage variations in a first voltage drop between first and second reference voltage rails) includes: electrically coupling one or more components to form a decoupling capacitance (decap) circuit; electrically coupling one or more components to form a filtered biasing circuit; and maki...