US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. on June 3 for "Electrostatic discharge device with pinch resistor" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,248, issued on June 3, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Electrostatic discharge device with pinch resistor" was invented by Anindya Nath (Essex Junction, Vt.), Robert J. Gauthier Jr. (Williston, Vt.) and Rajendran Krishnasamy (Essex Junction, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to an electrostatic discharge device (ESD) with a pinch resistor and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a semiconductor substrate; a shallow trench isolation structure extending into the semiconductor substrate; an amorphous layer in the semic...