ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,124, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"IEC protection of high-frequency terminals" was invented by Kshitij Yadav (San Diego), Vijayakumar Dhanasekaran (San Diego), Khaled Mahmoud Abdelfattah Aly (Irvine, Calif.), Ramkumar Sivakumar (San Diego), Dongyang Tang (San Diego) and Chienchung Yang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ESD trigger circuit is provided for protecting a pass transistor coupled to an integrated circuit terminal. The integrated circuit terminal couples through a diode to a voltage node. In response to an electrostatic shock at the integrated circuit terminal, the diode conducts ...