ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,558, issued on July 15, was assigned to LEN TECH Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"ESD protection apparatus and control method" was invented by Gonggui Xu (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ESD protection apparatus includes a first clamping device and a second clamping device connected in series between a bias voltage bus and ground, and a switch coupled between an input/output pad and a common node of the first clamping device and the second clamping device, wherein the switch is configured such that before a bias voltage on the bias voltage bus has been established, a leakage current flowing through the first clamping device is re...