US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Feb. 3 for "Circuit and method for charge device model protection" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,378, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuit and method for charge device model protection" was invented by Bahar Youssefi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Xiaobin Yuan (Cary, N.C.), David M. Burnell (Ellicott City, Md.), Dimitros Loizos (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Stephanie Leclerc (Anjou, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments included herein are directed towards an electrostatic discharge ("ESD") protection circuit and methods of using the same. The circuit may include a power supply and a power clamp operatively connected with the power supply. The circuit may further include a fie...