US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Feb. 4 for "Line driver with high over-voltage protection" (Armenian, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,662, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Line driver with high over-voltage protection" was invented by Tigran Petrosyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Arshavir Matevosyan (Glendale, Calif.), Davit Vanetsyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Davit Petrosyan (Oakville, Canada) and Ashot Muradyan (Yerevan, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line driver circuit include a multitude of PMOS and NMOS transistors. A first PMOS transistor receives an output voltage of a first level converter. A second PMOS transistor receives a first reference voltage. A third and fourth PMOS transistors receive an output voltage of a second vo...