US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "Power efficient multi-bit storage system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,243, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power efficient multi-bit storage system" was invented by Kai-Chi Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Lin Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiang Ma (Taipei, Taiwan) and Shang-Chih Hsieh (Yangmei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments related to a power efficient multi-bit storage system. In one configuration, the multi-bit storage system includes a first storage circuit, a second storage circuit, a prediction circuit, and a clock gating circuit. In one aspect, the first storage circuit updates a first output...