US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS, STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) on Jan. 28 for "Level shifter circuit, corresponding device and method" (Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,320, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Level shifter circuit, corresponding device and method" was invented by Antonino Conte (Tremestieri Etneo, Italy), Marco Ruta (San Gregorio di Catania, Italy), Michelangelo Pisasale (Catania, Italy) and Thomas Jouanneau (St-Egreve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level-shifter circuit receives one or more input signals in an input level domain and includes provides at an output node an output signal in an output level domain shifted with respect to the input level domain. The circuit...