US Patent Issued to United Microelectronics on April 22 for "Electronic fuse circuit and method for electronic fuse circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,329, issued on April 22, was assigned to United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic fuse circuit and method for electronic fuse circuit" was invented by Chia Wei Ho (Nantou County, Taiwan), Min Chia Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chung Ming Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jin Pang Chi (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power circuit is adapted for providing a programming voltage to an electronic fuse circuit, and includes a pass transistor of a P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor, a buffer circuit, and a bulk voltage control circuit. The pass transistor includes a bulk electrode, a gate electrode, a first...