ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,384, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Protection device with space saving layout" was invented by Rolf Weis (Dresden, Germany), Josef Deichler (Dresden, Germany), Henning Feick (Dresden, Germany) and Ahmed Mahmoud (Freising, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a protection device and a protection device are disclosed. The method includes: forming a first diode arrangement including at least one first diode and at least one second diode connected in anti-series between a first circuit node and a second circuit node of the first diode arrangement; forming...