ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,717, issued on June 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Discrete time loop based thermal control" was invented by Jui-Cheng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Hsing Hsiao (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yu-Jie Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Tung-Tsun Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Allen Timothy Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a circuit includes: an error amplifier; a temperature sensor, wherein the temperature sensor is coupled to the error amplifier; a discrete time controller coupled to the error amplifier, wherein the discrete time controller comprises digital circuit...