US Patent Issued to Synopsys on March 24 for "Negative discharge circuit" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,088, issued on March 24, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Negative discharge circuit" was invented by Arpit Vijayvergia (Bhopal, India), Rahul Gupta (Faridabad, India) and Nitin Bansal (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a control circuit branch and a discharge circuit branch. The control circuit branch is electrically coupled between a control input node and a negative node. The control circuit branch includes a p-type transistor (MP), a diode, and a first n-type transistor (MN1). A source node of MP is electrically coupled to the control input node. The diode has an anode and a cath...