US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Aug. 19 for "Structure and method to ground reference voltage generator" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,451, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Structure and method to ground reference voltage generator" was invented by Dzung T. Tran (Austin, Texas) and Navneet K. Jain (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a structure and method to ground a reference voltage generator based on a detected supply voltage. A circuit structure according to the disclosure includes a pass gate. The pass gate includes a pair of transistors each coupled to an input signal. One of the pair of transistors of the pass gate includes a gate coupled to a static reference volta...