US Patent Issued to NXP on Dec. 9 for "Clamp device activation from ESD clamp transistor body contact" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,634, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Clamp device activation from ESD clamp transistor body contact" was invented by Gijs Jan de Raad (Bemmel, Netherlands), Guido Wouter Willem Quax (Wijchen, Netherlands) and Alma Anderson (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ESD circuit includes an ESD clamp device with an ESD clamp transistor. The ESD clamp transistor has two sets of one or more body contacts. One set is coupled to a supply voltage rail and the other set is coupled to a clamp activation circuit. The clamp activation circuit is coupled to a clamp device. During an electrical stress ...