US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 21 for "Electrostatic discharge robustness for a single rail transmitting driver" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,686, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Electrostatic discharge robustness for a single rail transmitting driver" was invented by Jaseem Ahammed (San Diego), Ashwin Sethuram (San Clemente, Calif.) and Gurmukh Singh (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ESD protection circuit in an interface circuit has a first diode coupled between a power source of an integrated circuit device and an input/output pad of the integrated circuit device, a second diode coupled between a first terminal of a first resistive element and the input/output pad, with a second terminal of the first resistive element b...