US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 22 for "Low contention high reference offset tolerant level shifter" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,532, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Low contention high reference offset tolerant level shifter" was invented by Abhishek Roy (West Bengal, India), Divaker Sharma (Sambhal, India), Kailash Kumar (Hazaribag, India) and Akhil Thotli (Andhra Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level shifter implemented with contention mitigation is disclosed. The level shifter generally includes: an input transistor pair; a first cascode transistor pair coupled in cascode with the input transistor pair, respectively; first cross-coupled transistors; a second cascode transistor pair coupled in cascode...