US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 15 for "Input/output (IO) failsafe protection topology in leaky technology nodes" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,940, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Input/output (IO) failsafe protection topology in leaky technology nodes" was invented by Shailesh Kumar Chauhan (Uttar Pradesh, India), Akhil Thotli (Karnataka, India), Kailash Kumar (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Ankit Agrawal (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Failsafe IO circuitry is provided that can operate in a failsafe mode and a normal mode. The failsafe IO circuitry can include input circuitry that (i) receives a pad signal (PAD) from driver circuitry, (ii) receives control signals (VDDIO, VREFN) and (iii) provides an output signal (...