US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Gated level-shifter circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,613, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Gated level-shifter circuit" was invented by Arjunsimha Chaturbhuj (San Jose, Calif.), Chen Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Ling Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Nikhil Acharya (Mountain View, Calif.), Stanley B. Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Derek K. Shaeffer (Redwood City, Calif.) and Henry C. Jen (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level-shifter circuit that uses a gating signal is disclosed. The level-shifter circuit may initialize a shift node in response to a deactivation of a gating signal and an input signal. When the gating signal is activated, the level-...