US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 14 for "Circuit, chip and semiconductor device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,135, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Circuit, chip and semiconductor device" was invented by Chao Chieh Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Chun Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Min-Shueh Yuan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Hsien Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC), and an evaluation circuit coupled to the TDC and a phase-locked loop (PLL) external to the circuit."

The patent was filed on May 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/668,282.

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