US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on March 17 for "Level shifter having a cross-coupled current mirror circuit for reducing or cancelling common mode slew current" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,570, issued on March 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Level shifter having a cross-coupled current mirror circuit for reducing or cancelling common mode slew current" was invented by Ching Tiu Hsu (Villach, Austria) and Tin Chee Chan (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level shifter includes: a low voltage domain configured to output non-overlapping first and second current pulses based on opposite edges of a logic input signal; and a high voltage domain comprising a latch and a current mirror circuit configured to mirror the non-overlapping first and second current pulses such that the ...