US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on June 3 for "Integrated circuit (IC) with wide-range I/O supply" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,140, issued on June 3, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Integrated circuit (IC) with wide-range I/O supply" was invented by Sneha Shetty (Bangalore, India) and Rajesh Yadav (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O module configured to operate over a range of voltage supplies includes a transmit path circuit and a receive path circuit that are each configured to convert a data signal between a core voltage domain and one of a first voltage domain (e.g., a high voltage domain) and a second voltage domain (e.g., a low voltage domain) in response to a mode select signal."

The patent was filed on Oct. 28, 2...