ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,560, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device including a level shifter and method of mitigating a delay between input and output signals" was invented by Jerrin Pathrose Vareed (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shiba Mohanty (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an input, a level shifter, an output, and a switch module. The input is configured to receive an input signal in a first voltage domain. The level shifter is connected to the input and is configured to shift the input signal from the first voltage domain to a second vol...