US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "Thermal sensor circuit and calibration method using the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,549, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Thermal sensor circuit and calibration method using the same" was invented by Jaw-Juinn Horng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Szu-Lin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal sensor circuit that includes a temperature sensing circuit, an analog to digital converter, a processor and a divider circuit. The temperature sensing circuit generates a first temperature-dependent voltage and a second temperature-dependent voltage. The analog to digital converter converts a voltage difference between the first temperature-dependen...