US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Dec. 16 for "Compact area electrostatic discharge protection circuit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,716, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Compact area electrostatic discharge protection circuit" was invented by James Paul DiSarro (Allen, Texas), Aravind Chennimalai Appaswamy (Plano, Texas) and Zaichen Chen (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic discharge protection system with a node adapted to receive a signal and threshold detecting circuitry coupled to the node. The system includes an IGBT having an IGBT gate coupled to an output of the threshold detecting circuitry, a resistor coupled between an IGBT emitter of the IGBT and a low reference potential node, and a BJT having a B...