ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,896, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"High voltage amplifier" was invented by Ryohei Kudo (Tokyo), Tomoharu Nagashima (Tokyo), Hisaaki Kanai (Tokyo), Wen Li (Tokyo), Shinichi Murakami (Tokyo) and Naoya Ishigaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The high voltage amplifier includes: an input circuit configured to amplify an input signal and connected to a positive-electrode-side level shift circuit and a negative-electrode-side level shift circuit; a high-voltage output circuit including a positive-electrode-side output circuit configured to amplify a signal from the positive-electrode-side lev...