US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 11 for "Latch type sense amplifier" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,391, issued on March 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Latch type sense amplifier" was invented by Hua-Hsin Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Jen Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Hung Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Hau-Tai Shieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is disclosed and includes an input stage circuit, a switching circuit, and a first latch circuit. The input stage circuit generates a first input signal having a first voltage and a second input signal based on a third input signal. The switching circuit operates in response to a first control signal, and a...