ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,376, issued on July 29, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Decoder circuits using shared transistors for low-power, high-speed, and small area" was invented by Yorinobu Fujino (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Makoto Yabuuchi (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoder devices and a method of operating word-line decoder devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a decoder device includes a first logic gate that receives a disable signal and a first input signal, and generates a first decoder output signal at a first output node. The decoder device includes a second logic gate that receives the ...