US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 18 for "ESD protection device with isolation structure layout that minimizes harmonic distortion" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,229, issued on March 18, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"ESD protection device with isolation structure layout that minimizes harmonic distortion" was invented by Egle Tylaite (Munich) and Joost Adriaan Willemen (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ESD protection device includes a semiconductor body having an upper surface, a plurality of p-type wells that each extend from the upper surface into the semiconductor body, and a plurality of n-type wells that each extend from the upper surface into the semiconductor body, wherein a total area of electrical insulator disposed between the p-type wells ...