ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,929, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resettable level shifting latch" was invented by Peter Normand Labrecque (Austin, Texas), Sayan Ganguly (Austin, Texas) and Samer Ghanem (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: a level shifter configured to: receive an input data signal in a first voltage domain; receive a reset signal in a second voltage domain; and generate an intermediate signal in the second voltage domain based on the input data signal and the reset signal; and a resettable latch configured to generate an output signal in the second voltage domain at an output in r...