ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,292, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Fail tolerant pad sensor circuit" was invented by Rahul Gupta (Haryana, India), Nitin Bansal (Gurgaon, India) and Akhil Thotli (Andhra Pradesh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fail tolerant sensor circuit for adjusting an input signal received at an input pad to be provided to an integrated circuit (IC). The circuit includes a sensor input transistor including a first terminal coupled to the input pad, a second terminal coupled to a receiver circuit, and a gate. The circuit further includes a feedback loop that includes a first voltage clamp circuit ...