US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on July 14 for "Distributed electrostatic discharge protection for semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,387, issued on July 14, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Distributed electrostatic discharge protection for semiconductor device" was invented by Mikito Sakakibara (Kumagaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, a circuit includes a first ESD protection circuit having a first terminal and a second terminal, and a second ESD protection circuit having a first terminal and a second terminal. The second terminal of the second ESD protection circuit is coupled with the second terminal of the first ESD protection circuit. The circuit further includes a third ESD protection c...