ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,382, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NEXPERIA B.V. (Nijmgegen, Netherlands).
"ESD protection device" was invented by Markus Mergens (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Hans-Martin Ritter (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Ansgar Thorns (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection device is provided for protecting an electrostatic discharge (ESD), sensitive device against an electromagnetic interference (EMI), event and/or an ESD event occurring on at least one of a first and second data line the ESD sensitive device is electrically connected to. Aspects of the present disclosure further relate to a system including an ESD sen...