US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on April 22 for "Voltage level shifter with multi-step programmable high supply voltage and high supply voltage-dependent variable low supply and gate bias voltages" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,952, issued on April 22, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Voltage level shifter with multi-step programmable high supply voltage and high supply voltage-dependent variable low supply and gate bias voltages" was invented by Siva Kumar Chinthu (Bangalore, India), Venkatesh Periyapatna Gopinath (Fremont, Calif.), Suresh Pasupula (Bangalore, India) and Devesh Dwivedi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure includes a level shifter, first and second variable voltage generators, and a programmable voltage generator. The level shifter includes low and high supply voltage nodes and two parallel br...