US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on April 21 for "Voltage level down-shifting circuit structure with input stage pull-down capacitor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,702, issued on April 21, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Voltage level down-shifting circuit structure with input stage pull-down capacitor" was invented by Siva Kumar Chinthu (Bangalore, India), Palle Sundar Veerendranath (Bangalore, India), Vivek Sharma (Bangalore, India) and Saumya Kumari Diwedi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage level shifter includes an input stage with series-connected first and second N-type field effect transistors (NFETs) and an output stage with an inverter connected to an intermediate node between the first and second NFETs. Gates of the first and second N...