US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Self-biasing ESD power clamp" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,557, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Self-biasing ESD power clamp" was invented by Tao Yi Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jam-Wem Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Ji Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wun-Jie Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a self-biasing electro-static discharge (ESD) power clamp. The ESD power clamp comprises an ESD detection circuit coupled to a positive supply voltage node and a ground voltage node. The ESD detection circuit includes a first node having a first voltage level during a standby mode and a second vol...