US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Nov. 18 for "Low capacitance silicon controlled rectifier topology for overvoltage protection" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,836, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Low capacitance silicon controlled rectifier topology for overvoltage protection" was invented by Srivatsan Parthasarathy (Acton, Mass.), Javier A. Salcedo (Chelmsford, Mass.), Jean-Jacques Hajjar (Lexington, Mass.), Yuanzhong Zhou (Andover, Mass.) and Tom Pilling (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low capacitance silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) topologies for overvoltage protection are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, an overvoltage protection circuit is connected between an RF signal pad and a ground signal pad. The overvoltage prot...