US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 21 for "Semiconductor device and electrostatic discharge clamp circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,687, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and electrostatic discharge clamp circuit" was invented by Li-Wei Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wun-Jie Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp circuit. The semiconductor device includes a voltage divider, a cascoded inverter, and a discharge circuit. The voltage divider is electrically coupled between a power supply voltage and an output voltage of the semiconductor device. The cascoded inverter is ele...