ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,665, issued on June 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Integrated circuit" was invented by Denizhan Karaca (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Gijs Jan de Raad (Bemmel, Netherlands), Marcus van der Vossen (Enschede, Netherlands) and Eric Thomas (Troarn, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit, IC, comprising one or more DC blocking modules connected to a respective input/output, IO, pin of the IC, each DC blocking module comprising: a capacitor having a first terminal connected to the respective IO pin and a second terminal connected to a node of the circuitry of the IC; and an electrostatic discharge, ESD...