ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,922, issued on May 19, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).
"Level shifter for power converters" was invented by Filipe Costa Beber Vieira (Villach, Austria), Salvatore Angelo Della Fortuna (San Giovanni la Punta, Italy) and Oleg Vitrenko (Villach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level shifter for a power converter includes: a differential detector; a first transistor having a drain electrically connected to a first node of the differential detector, a gate electrically connected to ground or a fixed DC voltage, and a source; a second transistor having a drain electrically connected to a second...