US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on March 31 for "Electrostatic discharge protection circuit" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,512, issued on March 31, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrostatic discharge protection circuit" was invented by Chung-Yu Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic discharge protection circuit including a first transistor, a second transistor, a trigger circuit, a time constant circuit and a bias circuit. The second transistor is coupled with the first transistor in series between a first power line and a second power line. The trigger circuit is configured to switch off the second transistor in a normal operation period. The time constant circuit is configured to cont...