US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 10 for "Device and circuit with voltage suppression" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,619, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device and circuit with voltage suppression" was invented by Chien-Chen Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei Min Chan (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kao-Cheng Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pei-Yuan Li (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is provided. The memory device comprises a memory cell, a first power rail and a suppressing circuit. The memory cell is coupled to a word line. The first power rail transmits a first supply voltage. The suppressing circuit comprises a first transistor an...