ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,741, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Low distortion level shifter" was invented by Hua Beng Chan (Singapore), Tak Ying Wong (Singapore) and Yun Da Bryan Seah (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, in a level shifter, an input signal from a first voltage domain that operates according to a first supply voltage; level shifting the input signal to at least one level-shifted signal having a second voltage greater than the first supply voltage; based on the at least one level-shifted signal, generating a first pulse signal and a second pulse...