US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 28 for "Electrostatic discharge circuit for multi-voltage rail thin-gate output driver" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,859, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Electrostatic discharge circuit for multi-voltage rail thin-gate output driver" was invented by Satish Krishnamoorthy (San Diego), Young Uk Yim (San Diego) and Ashwin Sethuram (San Clemente, 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 first power source of an integrated circuit device and an input/output pad of the integrated circuit device, a second diode coupled between a second power source of the integrated circuit device and the input/output pad, and a resistive element that couples ...