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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,701, issued on July 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Sense amplifier circuit and method" was invented by Jui-Jen Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Win-San Khwa (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jen-Chieh Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Fan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes first and second data lines, a sense amplifier including first and second input terminals, a first p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor coupled in series with a first capacitive device between the first data line and the second input terminal, a second PMOS transistor coupled in series wi...