US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 3 for "Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit with disable feature based on hot-plug condition detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,958, issued on June 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit with disable feature based on hot-plug condition detection" was invented by Jose Antonio Vieira Formenti (Dallas) and Zhao Fang (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes input terminals adapted to be coupled to a battery; a ground terminal; and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit coupled to the input terminals. The ESD protection circuit includes: a switch coupled between the ground terminal and the input terminals; and a control circuit coupled to the input terminals and to th...