ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,925, issued on June 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pulse width control apparatus and method" was invented by Yi-An Lai (Taipei, Taiwan), Chan-Hong Chern (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Cheng-Hsiang Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for generating a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal having a specific duty cycle. In one embodiment, the system includes a square wave generator and a logic device. The square wave generator is configured to delay a input square wave signal to generate a plurality of square wave signals. The ...