US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 25 for "Drain-ballasted electrostatic discharge protection circuits" (Idaho, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,267, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Drain-ballasted electrostatic discharge protection circuits" was invented by James E. Davis (Boise, Idaho), Michael D. Chaine (Boise, Idaho), Gregory A. King (Mankato, Minn.) and Liuchun Cai (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first voltage domain including a first circuit configured to operate at a first supply voltage, a second voltage domain including second circuit configured to operate at a second supply voltage, and a drain-ballasted electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit configured to electrically coup...