US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on June 2 for "ESD protection device with reduced harmonic distortion" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,933, issued on June 2, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"ESD protection device with reduced harmonic distortion" was invented by Egle Tylaite (Munich) and Joost Adriaan Willemen (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overvoltage protection device includes a semiconductor die, first and second semiconductor devices that are monolithically integrated in the semiconductor die and arranged in an anti-serial configuration with a conductive link connected between the first and second semiconductor devices at a central node of the overvoltage protection device, the first and second semiconductor devices each ...