US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 3 for "Contention-free dual-voltage logic cell" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,471, issued on June 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Contention-free dual-voltage logic cell" was invented by Lalit Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Jason Golbus (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jesse San-Jey Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms to mitigate signal race conditions in circuits that utilize multiple voltage domains. The mechanisms are applicable in signal fanout scenarios where leakage becomes problematic to signal timing, such machine memory devices, e.g., volatile single port or multi-port memory devices such as SRAMs (volatile static random access memory) or other bit-storing cell ...