ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,533, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Adaptable electrostatic discharge clamp trigger circuit" was invented by Aravinth Vengateswaran (Bangalore, India), Ajay Kanth Chitturi (Bangalore, India) and Muralikrishna Balaga (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes one or more circuits configured to control an Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) clamp device. The one or more circuits include a Resistor-Capacitor (RC) delay portion, a pull-up device, a pull-down device and a discharge pathway. The RC delay portion is configured to control the pull-up device. The pull-...