US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 20 for "Latch circuits and methods for operating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,549, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Latch circuits and methods for operating the same" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu Jung Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yueh Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Chang Zhao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Hsin Nien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kinshuk Khare (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first Dual Interlocked Storage Cell (DICE) component, a second DICE component, a third DICE component, and a fourth DICE component operatively coupled to one another as a loop. The first and second DICE components form a...