US Patent Issued to Socionext on May 19 for "Output circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,909, issued on May 19, was assigned to Socionext Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Output circuit" was invented by Kyota Shimizu (Yokohama, Japan), Tomohiko Koto (Yokohama, Japan) and Masahisa Iida (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output circuit outputs an output signal having an amplitude VCCH responsive to an input signal having an amplitude VCCL. The output circuit includes: first and second p-type transistors connected in series between VCCH and an output terminal; a first n-type transistor grounded at its source and receiving a first signal at its gate; a third p-type transistor connected to VCCH at its source, connected...