ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,917, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG (Villach, Austria).
"Protection device" was invented by Florin-Silviu Dumitru (Bucharest, Romania), Niranjan Reddy Suravarapu (Villach, Austria) and Alexandra-Oana Petroianu (Bucharest, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection device includes a first protection stage comprising a first p-type transistor comprising a first terminal, a second terminal, and a first gate terminal. A first voltage regulating device is connected between the first terminal and the second terminal. A second voltage regulating device is connected between the first terminal and...