US Patent Issued to NXP USA on May 19 for "Switch" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,910, issued on May 19, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Switch" was invented by Pascal Kamel Abouda (Saint Lys, France), Patrice Besse (Tournefeuille, France), Alain Salles (Pechbusque, France), Olivier Tico (St Lys, France), Evgueniy Nikolov Stefanov (Vieille Toulouse, France), Khalil Jradi (Donneville, France) and Arlette Marty-Blavier (Seysses, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch arrangement comprising: a bi-directional metal-oxide-semiconductor, MOS, switch having a drain, source and gate and a body; a first circuit coupled between the drain, the gate and the source for providing electrostatic discharge pr...