US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Feb. 4 for "Electrostatic discharge circuit having stable discharging mechanism" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,127, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrostatic discharge circuit having stable discharging mechanism" was invented by Chung-Yu Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an electrical discharge circuit having stable discharging mechanism. A voltage-dividing circuit generates a detection signal such that a first inverter outputs an inverted detection signal. A first PMOS and a first NMOS are coupled through a first terminal between the voltage input terminal and a ground terminal. A second NMOS is coupled between a second terminal and the g...