US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Dec. 16 for "Sense amplifier and method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,918, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Sense amplifier and method thereof" was invented by Tsung-Che Lu (Tainan, Taiwan), Chin-Ming Fu (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Chih-Hsien Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sense amplifier includes a first pair of transistors having gate terminals respectively coupled to a first input terminal for receiving a first input signal and to a second input terminal for receiving a second input signal, source terminals coupled to a first power supply terminal, and drain terminals. The sense amplifier also includes a second pa...