ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,682, issued on March 31, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Voltage scalable level shifter" was invented by Sayan Adhikary (West Bengal, India) and Ankit Agrawal (Uttar Pradesh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit. In some embodiments, the circuit includes: a first pair of transistors, configured as a cross-coupled pair of transistors; a second pair of transistors, configured as another cross-coupled pair of transistors; and a first series combination of one or more voltage clamping transistors. A first transistor of the first pair of transistors may have a current-carrying terminal electrically coupled t...