US Patent Issued to Southern University of Science and Technology on May 27 for "Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,103, issued on May 27, was assigned to Southern University of Science and Technology (GuangDong, China).

"Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits" was invented by Guobiao Zhang (Corvallis, Ore.), Zhitang Song (ShangHai), Hongyu Yu (ShenZhen, China) and Sannian Song (ShangHai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an ESD protection circuit comprising resistor vias. It comprises a plurality of ESD devices connected in parallel, with each ESD device comprising a resistor and a two-terminal switch (e.g. an OTS component) connected in series. The resistor is formed in a resistor via disposed vertically wi...