ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,821, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic circuit and method of error correction" was invented by Chia-Chun Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Chao Chieh Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Tso Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Min-Shueh Yuan (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit and a method of error correction are provided. The electronic circuit includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) and an error cancelation circuit. The TDC is configured to generate a first signal. The error cancelation circuit is configured to evaluate a majority of bit values of...