ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,048, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Transmitter driver circuit" was invented by Qing Jiang (Mississauga, Canada), Adam Ross Burns (Burlington, Canada), Karanbir Singh Chahal (Brampton, Canada) and Yunus Ibrahim Dawji (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level-shiftless transmitter includes a transmitter driver circuit. The transmitter driver circuit includes a first PMOS device, a second PMOS device, a first NMOS device, a second NMOS device, and a sub-circuit. The sources of the first and second PMOS devices are electrically coupled with each other. The gates of the first PMO...