ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,920, issued on June 17, was assigned to VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Level shifter" was invented by Jung-Tsun Chuang (Tainan, Taiwan), Shao-Chang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Fan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Chih Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Gong-Kai Lin (Yilan County, Taiwan) and Chien-Wei Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A level shifter includes a level shifting circuit and a voltage tracking circuit. The level shifting circuit receives an input signal through an input terminal and converts the input signal from a first power domain to a second power domain to generate an output si...