US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 11 for "Integrated circuit having current detection device and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,015, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit having current detection device and operating method thereof" was invented by Junsik Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heesu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungsuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Namsu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC includes a pad, a current detection device connected to the pad and configured to generate monitoring information corresponding to an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event, and an internal circuit configured to receive the monitoring information from the current det...