ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,196, issued on March 24, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Thin oxide low voltage to high voltage level shifters" was invented by Lakshmi Venkata Satya Lalitha Indumathi Janaswamy (Hyderabad, India), Narendra Kumar Pulipati (Hyderabad, India), Shidong Zhou (Hyderabad, India), Anil Kumar Kandala (Hyderabad, India), Santosh Yachareni (Hyderabad, India) and Sree Rama Krishna Chaithnya Saraswatula (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level shifter may include a first transistor stack including at least four transistors arranged from a first voltage source to ground, including second and third transistors cou...