US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 9 for "Bit line pre-charge circuit and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,605, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Bit line pre-charge circuit and method" was invented by Che-Ju Yeh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yu-Hao Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan), Hau-Tai Shieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bit line is pre-charged based on a clock signal internal to a bit line pre-charge circuit when a bit line pre-charge window is within a margin of a predetermined pre-charge window. A bit line is pre-charged based on a clock signal external to the bit line pre-charge circuit when the bit line pre-charge window is outs...