ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,115, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Electrostatic discharge protection circuit" was invented by Andre Schmenn (Sachsenkam, Germany), Klaus Diefenbeck (Munich) and Joost Adriaan Willemen (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes: a first electrostatic discharge protection device structure; a first contact pad above the first electrostatic discharge protection device structure in a cross-sectional view; and below the first electrostatic discharge protection device structure in the cross-sectional view, a metal connection coupling the f...