ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,546, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Driver/inverter using lower voltage tolerant devices" was invented by Sri Ram Kumar Jayanthi (Andhra Pradesh, India), Akhil Thotli (Andhra Pradesh, India) and Rahul Gupta (Haryana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logic circuit includes: a first cascode circuit including: a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor connected in series, the third transistor connected to an output of the first cascode circuit; and a first diode connected in parallel with the third transistor; and a second cascode circuit connected in series with the firs...