US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 16 for "Device for electrostatic discharge protection using silicon controlled rectifier" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,695, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device for electrostatic discharge protection using silicon controlled rectifier" was invented by Kyoungil Do (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinwoo Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooyoung Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mijin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chanhee Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a first clamp circuit connected between a first node and a second node, wherein the first clamp circuit includes: a symmetric bipolar transistor comprising a control terminal, a first current terminal and a seco...