US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Oct. 14 for "Device and system for ESD protection" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,324, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Device and system for ESD protection" was invented by Dong Wang (Chandler, Ariz.), Jim Nolan (Chandler, Ariz.) and HongZhong Xu (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection may protect sensitive circuits in the presence of both positive and negative ESD events. A protection transistor may be coupled to a pad, and a protection clamp may be coupled to the protection transistor. The protection transistor may be in an isolation n-well, and a current limiting resistor may be coupled from the pad t...