ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,441, issued on July 8, was assigned to Shaoxing Yuanfang Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"Level-shifter and its use with switching converters" was invented by Arnold J D'Souza (Bangalore, India) and Shyam Somayajula (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide level-shifters and their use with switching converters. A level-shifter receives a binary signal on an input node and generates an output signal also representing the same logic level of the binary signal. The output signal represents logic levels in a first voltage range defined with respect to a first constant reference p...