US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 10 for "Voltage reference circuit based on temperature-sensitive devices having opposite temperature coefficients" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,198, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Voltage reference circuit based on temperature-sensitive devices having opposite temperature coefficients" was invented by Bei-Shing Lien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Szu-Lin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first temperature-sensitive device configured to generate a first voltage, a second temperature-sensitive device configured to generate a second voltage, and an output terminal configured to generate a reference voltage which is a summation of the first voltage and the second vol...