ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,000, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Overvoltages protection circuit" was invented by Jean-Michel Simonnet (Veretz, France) and Romain Pichon (Reugny, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a circuit of protection against overvoltages appearing during a protection against overcurrents comprising: a first diode and a second diode having their cathodes coupled to a first node; a first transient voltage suppressor diode having its cathode coupled to a second node and having its anode coupled to the anode of the first diode; a thyristor having its cathode...