ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,219, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Freeze enabled swing level shifter" was invented by Pradeep Kumar Sana (Bangalore, India) and Mohammad Wasim Sayed (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a circuit in a first power domain, a first tri-state inverter having an input coupled to the circuit, and a second tri-state inverter having an input coupled to an output of the first tri-state inverter. The system also includes a level shifter in a second power domain, wherein the level shifter has a first input coupled to the output of the first tri-state inverter and a second input cou...