ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,928, issued on April 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Level shifter for power electronics circuits" was invented by Roberto Quaglino (Villach, Austria) and Arnaud Philippe Albert Perroy (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level shifter includes: a current pulse generation circuit coupled to a first supply rail and a first (ground) reference rail and configured to output non-overlapping first and second current pulses based on opposite edges of a logic input signal; a latch and a current mirror circuit coupled to a second supply rail and a second reference rail and configured to m...