US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on May 27 for "Interference filter and electrostatic discharge / electrical surge protection circuit and device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,105, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Interference filter and electrostatic discharge / electrical surge protection circuit and device" was invented by Yupeng Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to an electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter circuit including: an input terminal; an output terminal; an electrical ground terminal; a resistor electrically coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal; a first bipolar transistor including: a collector terminal electrically coupled with the...