US Patent Issued to LAPIS Technology on Aug. 25 for "ESD protection circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,264, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LAPIS Technology Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"ESD protection circuit" was invented by Satoru Kurotsu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RC circuit 110 is connected in series between VDD and GND. A RC circuit 120 is set with a time constant different from that of the RC circuit 110 connected in series between VDD and GND. In the inverter circuit 210, a potential is input between a resistance element 111 and a capacitance element 112. In the inverter circuit 220, a potential is input between a resistance element 121 and a capacitance element 122. In an NMOS transistor 310, an outp...