US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 14 for "Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and method of operating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,934, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and method of operating the same" was invented by Tao Yi Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ming-Fang Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Wei Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wun-Jie Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jam-Wem Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp circuit includes an electrostatic discharge (ESD) detection circuit coupled between a first node and a second node. The clamp circuit further includes a first transistor of a first type. The first transistor has a first gate coupled to at...