US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 8 for "Data retention circuit and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,446, issued on July 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data retention circuit and method" was invented by Kai-Chi Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chen Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Lin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiang Ma (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Chih Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Lee-Chung Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first power node having a first voltage level, a second power node having a second voltage level different from the first voltage level, a reference node having a reference voltage level, a ma...