ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,463, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"ESD protection device" was invented by Christian Cornelius Russ (Diedorf, Germany), Gabriel-Dumitru Cretu (Munich), Filippo Magrini (Munich), Markus Eckinger (Regenstauf, Germany) and Chi Dong Nguyen (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) includes a first p-well region, a second p-well region, and an n-doped region. The first p-well region is coupled to a first trigger terminal via a first p-doped tap region disposed in the first p-well region. The first p-doped tap region has a higher concentration of a p-ty...