US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 26 for "ESD power clamp devices and circuits" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,189, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"ESD power clamp devices and circuits" was invented by Jam-Wem Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wun-Jie Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Wei Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, circuits, and methods for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection are provided. An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit comprises a first transistor connected between a first voltage and a second voltage, and a first control circuit connected between the first voltage and the second voltage, and confi...