US Patent Issued to PSEMI on May 19 for "Resonance cancellation devices and methods" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,257, issued on May 19, was assigned to PSEMI Corp. (San Diego).

"Resonance cancellation devices and methods" was invented by Joseph Porter Slaton (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ground impedance may have adverse effects on the performance of RF circuits that employ shunt switches. The disclosed methods and devices address this issue. The methods and devices involve the use of a switch to remove a decoupling capacitor from an RF circuit on an integrated circuit (IC) pin where the storage cap is connected; or modifying the turn-on threshold of an electrostatic discharge protection device (ESD) on the IC pin with the storage ca...