US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on July 1 for "Multi-stage charge pump circuit including voltage level shifter for clock signal generation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,133, issued on July 1, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Multi-stage charge pump circuit including voltage level shifter for clock signal generation" was invented by Siva Kumar Chinthu (Bangalore, India), Palle Sundar Veerendranath (Andhrapradesh, India), Venu Gopal Reddy Ara (Bangalore, India) and Abdul Rajak (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed charge pump includes first and second stages and, optionally, additional stage(s). The first stage receives a voltage input (Vin) at a first voltage (V1), CLK1 (GND, V1), and CLK1B (V1, GND), and outputs a first stage voltage output (Vout1) at a...