US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 13 for "Semiconductor device with ESD protection and methods of operating and configuring the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,692, issued on May 13, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with ESD protection and methods of operating and configuring the same" was invented by Chia-Hui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Bo-Ting Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-static discharge (ESD) protection network for an input/output (I/O) pad includes a driver stack including an upper branch and a lower branch, the upper branch being electrically connected between a first node that has a first reference voltage and the I/O pad, and the lower branch b...