US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 8 for "Slew rate controlled output buffer circuit and semiconductor device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,440, issued on July 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Slew rate controlled output buffer circuit and semiconductor device" was invented by Ryota Terauchi (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, which includes a process monitor circuit, a controller, and an output buffer. The process monitor circuit is configured to measure process information of the semiconductor device. The controller is electrically connected to the process monitor circuit, and configured to generate a trimming co...