US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Nov. 11 for "Compact high voltage pre-driver and circuits including the pre-driver" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,218, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Compact high voltage pre-driver and circuits including the pre-driver" was invented by Siva Kumar Chinthu (Bangalore, India), Suresh Pasupula (Anatapur, India), Devesh Dwivedi (Bangalore, India) and Anoop Delampady (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-driver includes first, second, third, and fourth P-channel field effect transistors (PFETs) with voltage ratings equal to a low first voltage (V1). Between power rails at V1 and at a higher second voltage (V2), the first and third PFETs are series-connected and the second and fourth PFETs ar...