US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore on Oct. 21 for "High-voltage electrostatic discharge device" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,156, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"High-voltage electrostatic discharge device" was invented by Kyong Jin Hwang (Singapore) and Jie Zeng (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to high-voltage electrostatic discharge devices and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a semiconductor material including an emitter region, a base region adjacent to the emitter region; and a collector region; a thermally grown insulator region on the semiconductor material extending from the base region to t...