US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Dec. 23 for "High-voltage fault protection circuit" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,479, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"High-voltage fault protection circuit" was invented by Manoj Kumar (Greater Noida, India), Paras Garg (Noida, India) and Saiyid Mohammad Irshad Rizvi (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a high-voltage fault protection for an interface circuit. The interface circuit is transmitting data signals through an output driver to an external circuit coupled to a PAD contact. The output driver includes pull-up and pull-down drivers. The pull-up driver includes two series PMOS coupled between a voltage supply and ...