ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,252, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Distributed electro-static discharge protection" was invented by Hsin-Cheng Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Ming Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jui-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an integrated circuit layout including a first bank and a second bank. The first bank includes a plurality of I/O circuits and at least one first ESD clamp device. The second bank includes at least one second ESD clamp device, wherein the at least one second ESD clamp device is different in type from the at least one first ESD clamp dev...