ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,715, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SK hynix system ic (Wuxi) Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu Province, China).

"Electro-static discharge protection devices having a low trigger voltage" was invented by Young Bum Eom (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea) and Myoung Chul Lim (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-static discharge (ESD) protection device includes a first well region, a second well region, a first diffusion region disposed in the first well region, a plurality of second diffusion regions disposed in the first well region separated from each other by the first diffusion region in a first direction, a ...