US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 3 for "Electrostatic protection circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,739, issued on March 3, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrostatic protection circuit" was invented by Masuhide Ikeda (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device includes: a first terminal; a second terminal; a first thyristor circuit whose one end is coupled to the first terminal; a second thyristor circuit whose one end is coupled to the second terminal; and a voltage setting circuit that is shared by the first thyristor circuit and the second thyristor circuit and through which a current from the first thyristor circuit when the first thyristor circuit is turned on and a current from the second...