US Patent Issued to Rohm on Nov. 4 for "Level shifter, drive circuit, switching power supply device, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,645, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Level shifter, drive circuit, switching power supply device, and vehicle" was invented by Isao Takobe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level shifter includes first to third signal generators, wherein the first and second signal generators use, as an upper-side power supply voltage, a first internal voltage based on a first voltage when the first voltage is higher than a second voltage, and a second internal voltage based on the second voltage when the second voltage is higher than the first voltage, wherein the third signal generator uses the second vo...