ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,860, issued on June 9, was assigned to Nexperia B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

"Semiconductor device and ESD protection device comprising charge carrier injection structure" was invented by Steffen Holland (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Hans-Martin Ritter (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Guido Notermans (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic discharge protection device is provided. The present device relates to a semiconductor device that is particularly suitable as a component for electrostatic discharge protection. The semiconductor device comprises a first structure, including: a third semiconductor region of th...