US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 17 for "Input hysteresis buffer in overdrive design" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,929, issued on June 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Input hysteresis buffer in overdrive design" was invented by Chia-Wei Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Kai Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods are provided for an input hysteresis buffer that includes a voltage limiting unit, a voltage detecting unit connected to the voltage limiting unit, and a supply tracking bias unit connected to the voltage detecting unit. The voltage liming unit comprises a first voltage limiting unit and a second voltage limiting unit. The ...