US Patent Issued to Semtech on July 8 for "Protection circuit with a FET device coupled from a protected bus to ground" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,728, issued on July 8, was assigned to Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"Protection circuit with a FET device coupled from a protected bus to ground" was invented by Lei Hua (Camarillo, Calif.), William Allen Russell (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Changjun Huang (Oak Park, Calif.), Bo Liang (Shanghai) and Pengcheng Han (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a voltage input circuit node and a ground voltage node. A first transistor is coupled between the voltage input circuit node and the ground voltage node. A triggering circuit is coupled between the voltage input circuit node and the ground volta...