US Patent Issued to Omni Design Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Latchup detector and clock loss detector" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,972, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Omni Design Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Latchup detector and clock loss detector" was invented by Manar Ibrahim El-Chammas (Austin, Texas), Vaibhav Tripathi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jagdish Kumar Agrawal (Banagalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latchup detector includes a level shifter and a comparator. The level shifter is electrically coupled to a voltage supply rail to receive as inputs a regulator output voltage and a target supply voltage. The level shifter includes a first level-shifter circuit that lowers the regulator output voltage to a first voltage and a second...