US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Feb. 3 for "Electrostatic discharge protection devices for bi-directional current protection" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,331, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Electrostatic discharge protection devices for bi-directional current protection" was invented by Sagar Premnath Karalkar (Sagus, Mass.), Kyong Jin Hwang (Singapore) and Joseph James Jerry (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device is provided. The ESD protection device includes a substrate having an upper substrate surface, an active well region, a first terminal well region, and a second terminal well region. The active well region is in the substrate, and the first terminal well region and the second te...