ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,191, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Protection circuits for interfaces" was invented by Po Cheng Liao (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien Hao Lu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsin Tso Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of a protection circuit for an interface are described. In an example, the protection circuit comprises an electrostatic discharge (ESD) module. The ESD module suppresses a discharge voltage caused due to an electrostatic discharge. The ESD module may be further coupled to a capacitive element and a resistive element. The capacitive element is to route discha...