US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on June 10 for "Circuit and method for charge device model protection" (Canadian, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,948, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuit and method for charge device model protection" was invented by Bahar Youssefi (Pointe-Claire, Canada), David Michael Burnell (Ellicott City, Md.), Jean-Francois Delage (Montreal), Stephane Leclerc (Anjou, Canada) and Zheng Lai (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments included herein are directed towards a charge device model ("CDM") protection circuit. The circuit may include a power supply, a power clamp operatively connected to the power supply, at least one diode connected with the power clamp, a field effect transisto...