ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,999, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"ESD protection device" was invented by Shu-Yu Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jam-Wem Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wun-Jie Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for protecting a device from an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event are provided. A resistor-capacitor (RC) trigger circuit and a driver circuit are provided. The RC trigger circuit is configured to provide an ESD protection signal to the driver circuit. A discharge circuit includes a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor and a second MOS tra...