ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,526, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"High voltage power switch" was invented by Siva Kumar Chinthu (Bangalore, India), Palle Sundar Veerendranath (Bangalore, India), Rajneesh Kumar (Noida, India) and Chaithanya Lakshmi Syba (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power switch, including: a PFET including a gate, a source coupled to a source voltage, and a drain for outputting a supply voltage; and a level shifter, wherein the level shifter includes: an input node for receiving an input voltage, wherein the input voltage includes first and second voltage levels; a supply node for...