US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Feb. 10 for "ESD protection circuit having different discharging paths" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,455, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"ESD protection circuit having different discharging paths" was invented by Chien-Ming Wu (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an ESD protection circuit including a control circuit, a first transistor, a filter and a second transistor. The control circuit is configured to detect a level of a supply voltage to generate a control signal. The first transistor is coupled between the supply voltage and a ground voltage, and is used to refer to the control signal to determine whether to be enabled as a dischargin...