Derek TAO

Person

Fremont, CA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Semiconductor device
- Patent number 12,132,041
- Issue date Oct 29, 2024
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd
- Jacklyn Chang
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Method of fabricating a semiconductor device
- Patent number 11,138,359
- Issue date Oct 5, 2021
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
- Annie Lum
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Semiconductor device
- Patent number 11,031,383
- Issue date Jun 8, 2021
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd
- Jacklyn Chang
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Method of fabricating a semiconductor device
- Patent number 10,762,269
- Issue date Sep 1, 2020
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
- Annie Lum
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Modified design rules to improve device performance
- Patent number 10,339,248
- Issue date Jul 2, 2019
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
- Annie Lum
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Timing delay characterization method, memory compiler and computer...
- Patent number 10,176,282
- Issue date Jan 8, 2019
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
- Shaojie Xu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Memory with regulated ground nodes and method of retaining data the...
- Patent number 9,978,446
- Issue date May 22, 2018
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
- Kuoyuan (Peter) Hsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Modified design rules to improve device performance
- Patent number 9,852,249
- Issue date Dec 26, 2017
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
- Annie Lum
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and control circuit for memory macro
- Patent number 9,779,801
- Issue date Oct 3, 2017
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Reading data from a memory cell
- Patent number 9,576,622
- Issue date Feb 21, 2017
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Method of writing memory with regulated ground nodes
- Patent number 9,530,487
- Issue date Dec 27, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) Hsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Tracking mechanisms
- Patent number 9,478,269
- Issue date Oct 25, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Pre-charging a data line
- Patent number 9,449,681
- Issue date Sep 20, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie-Li-Keow Lum
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Tracking mechanism for writing to a memory cell
- Patent number 9,418,717
- Issue date Aug 16, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) Hsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Memory array and method of operating the same
- Patent number 9,406,373
- Issue date Aug 2, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Memory macro with a voltage keeper
- Patent number 9,343,125
- Issue date May 17, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Semiconductor circuit design method, memory compiler and computer p...
- Patent number 9,298,875
- Issue date Mar 29, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Shaojie Xu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method of memory with regulated ground nodes
- Patent number 9,218,857
- Issue date Dec 22, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) Hsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Tracking circuit
- Patent number 9,208,841
- Issue date Dec 8, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Multiple bitcells tracking scheme semiconductor memory array
- Patent number 9,099,201
- Issue date Aug 4, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Pre-charging a data line
- Patent number 9,087,565
- Issue date Jul 21, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie-Li-Keow Lum
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Two-port SRAM write tracking scheme
- Patent number 9,019,753
- Issue date Apr 28, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Bing Wang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Timing delay characterization method, memory compiler and computer...
- Patent number 8,997,031
- Issue date Mar 31, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Shaojie Xu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Memory macro with a voltage keeper
- Patent number 8,988,948
- Issue date Mar 24, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Tracking scheme for memory
- Patent number 8,976,614
- Issue date Mar 10, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Yong Zhang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Tracking mechanism for writing to a memory cell
- Patent number 8,964,492
- Issue date Feb 24, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) Hsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Generating and amplifying differential signals
- Patent number 8,942,053
- Issue date Jan 27, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Chung-Ji Lu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Semiconductor circuit design method, memory compiler and computer p...
- Patent number 8,935,641
- Issue date Jan 13, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Shaojie Xu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Layout of memory cells
- Patent number 8,929,154
- Issue date Jan 6, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Jacklyn Chang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Tracking mechanisms
- Patent number 8,913,440
- Issue date Dec 16, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. Tao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
- Publication number 20210288043
- Publication date Sep 16, 2021
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Jacklyn CHANG
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
METHOD OF FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
- Publication number 20200394355
- Publication date Dec 17, 2020
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie LUM
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
- Publication number 20200058634
- Publication date Feb 20, 2020
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Jacklyn CHANG
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
METHOD OF FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
- Publication number 20190325104
- Publication date Oct 24, 2019
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie LUM
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MODIFIED DESIGN RULES TO IMPROVE DEVICE PERFORMANCE
- Publication number 20180113973
- Publication date Apr 26, 2018
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie LUM
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MEMORY WITH REGULATED GROUND NODES AND METHOD OF RETAINING DATA THE...
- Publication number 20170092353
- Publication date Mar 30, 2017
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) HSU
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR MEMORY MACRO
- Publication number 20160211012
- Publication date Jul 21, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD OF WRITING MEMORY WITH REGULATED GROUND NODES
- Publication number 20160104525
- Publication date Apr 14, 2016
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) HSU
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MEMORY ARRAY AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME
- Publication number 20150325287
- Publication date Nov 12, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
PRE-CHARGING A DATA LINE
- Publication number 20150294715
- Publication date Oct 15, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie-Li-Keow LUM
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
READING DATA FROM A MEMORY CELL
- Publication number 20150213858
- Publication date Jul 30, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TIMING DELAY CHARACTERIZATION METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER...
- Publication number 20150178430
- Publication date Jun 25, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Shaojie XU
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MEMORY MACRO WITH A VOLTAGE KEEPER
- Publication number 20150162060
- Publication date Jun 11, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing company Ltd.
- DEREK C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TRACKING MECHANISM FOR WRITING TO A MEMORY CELL
- Publication number 20150131391
- Publication date May 14, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) Hsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DESIGN METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER P...
- Publication number 20150095867
- Publication date Apr 2, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Shaojie XU
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TRACKING MECHANISMS
- Publication number 20150071016
- Publication date Mar 12, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MEMORY MACRO WITH A VOLTAGE KEEPER
- Publication number 20150029797
- Publication date Jan 29, 2015
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing company Ltd.
- DEREK C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DESIGN METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER P...
- Publication number 20140282319
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Shaojie XU
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TRACKING CIRCUIT
- Publication number 20140269026
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TIMING DELAY CHARACTERIZATION METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER...
- Publication number 20140282318
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Shaojie XU
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MULTIPLE BITCELLS TRACKING SCHEME SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY ARRAY
- Publication number 20140247675
- Publication date Sep 4, 2014
- Derek C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
CELL CIRCUITS AND LAYOUTS USED IN WRITE TRACKING CIRCUITS AND READ...
- Publication number 20140138776
- Publication date May 22, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Jacklyn CHANG
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
PRE-CHARGING A DATA LINE
- Publication number 20140140158
- Publication date May 22, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie-Li-Keow LUM
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
SLICER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME
- Publication number 20140119426
- Publication date May 1, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Ming-Chieh HUANG
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
TWO-PORT SRAM WRITE TRACKING SCHEME
- Publication number 20140092675
- Publication date Apr 3, 2014
- TAIWAN SIMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Bing WANG
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MULTIPLE BITCELLS TRACKING SCHEME SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY ARRAY
- Publication number 20140085993
- Publication date Mar 27, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Derek C. TAO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD OF MEMORY WITH REGULATED GROUND NODES
- Publication number 20140043921
- Publication date Feb 13, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) HSU
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TRACKING MECHANISM FOR WRITING TO A MEMORY CELL
- Publication number 20140032871
- Publication date Jan 30, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Kuoyuan (Peter) Hsu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
SLICER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME
- Publication number 20140015582
- Publication date Jan 16, 2014
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Ming-Chieh HUANG
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
MODIFIED DESIGN RULES TO IMPROVE DEVICE PERFORMANCE
- Publication number 20130311964
- Publication date Nov 21, 2013
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Annie LUM
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Semiconductor device

Method of fabricating a semiconductor device

Semiconductor device

Method of fabricating a semiconductor device

Modified design rules to improve device performance

Timing delay characterization method, memory compiler and computer...

Memory with regulated ground nodes and method of retaining data the...

Modified design rules to improve device performance

Method and control circuit for memory macro

Reading data from a memory cell

Method of writing memory with regulated ground nodes

Tracking mechanisms

Pre-charging a data line

Tracking mechanism for writing to a memory cell

Memory array and method of operating the same

Memory macro with a voltage keeper

Semiconductor circuit design method, memory compiler and computer p...

Method of memory with regulated ground nodes

Tracking circuit

Multiple bitcells tracking scheme semiconductor memory array

Pre-charging a data line

Two-port SRAM write tracking scheme

Timing delay characterization method, memory compiler and computer...

Memory macro with a voltage keeper

Tracking scheme for memory

Tracking mechanism for writing to a memory cell

Generating and amplifying differential signals

Semiconductor circuit design method, memory compiler and computer p...

Layout of memory cells

Tracking mechanisms

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

METHOD OF FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

METHOD OF FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE

MODIFIED DESIGN RULES TO IMPROVE DEVICE PERFORMANCE

MEMORY WITH REGULATED GROUND NODES AND METHOD OF RETAINING DATA THE...

METHOD AND CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR MEMORY MACRO

METHOD OF WRITING MEMORY WITH REGULATED GROUND NODES

MEMORY ARRAY AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

PRE-CHARGING A DATA LINE

READING DATA FROM A MEMORY CELL

TIMING DELAY CHARACTERIZATION METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER...

MEMORY MACRO WITH A VOLTAGE KEEPER

TRACKING MECHANISM FOR WRITING TO A MEMORY CELL

SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DESIGN METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER P...

TRACKING MECHANISMS

MEMORY MACRO WITH A VOLTAGE KEEPER

SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DESIGN METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER P...

TRACKING CIRCUIT

TIMING DELAY CHARACTERIZATION METHOD, MEMORY COMPILER AND COMPUTER...

MULTIPLE BITCELLS TRACKING SCHEME SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY ARRAY

CELL CIRCUITS AND LAYOUTS USED IN WRITE TRACKING CIRCUITS AND READ...

PRE-CHARGING A DATA LINE

SLICER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

TWO-PORT SRAM WRITE TRACKING SCHEME

MULTIPLE BITCELLS TRACKING SCHEME SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY ARRAY

METHOD OF MEMORY WITH REGULATED GROUND NODES

TRACKING MECHANISM FOR WRITING TO A MEMORY CELL

SLICER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

MODIFIED DESIGN RULES TO IMPROVE DEVICE PERFORMANCE