ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,872, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor circuit and method for operating the same" was invented by Chin-Hua Wen (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Wen-Hung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a method for operating the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a calibration device, an adjustment device and a driver. The calibration device is configured to continuously generate a first signal including a first number of bits. The adjustment device is configured to continuously receive the...