ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,219, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Overdrive I/O ESD protection network" was invented by Chia-Hui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Kai Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for an electronic device that comprises a core logic circuit coupled to a supply voltage rail and an operating voltage rail. During a standard operation, the supply voltage rail has a supply voltage, the operating voltage rail has an operating voltage, and a post driver voltage rail has an overdrive voltage that is gre...