ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,054, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for adaptive gate voltage generation of pad-connected devices" was invented by Jagadeesh Anathahalli Singrigowda (Bangalore, India), Rajesh Mangalore Anand (Bangalore, India), Shreevatsa M (Bangalore, India), Girish A S (Bangalore, India) and Prasant Kumar Vallur (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first and second PMOS transistor serially coupled between a high voltage power supply and a pad, a gate of the first PMOS transistor coupled to a first signal from an internal circuit, the firs...