US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on March 24 for "Substrate parasite reduction technique" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,011, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Substrate parasite reduction technique" was invented by Srinivasa Prasad Soundararajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection circuit is disclosed for use in automotive or industrial high power integrated circuits equipped with reverse battery protection and reverse current protection. The protection circuit prevents formation of parasitic devices that could cause the high power integrated circuit to malfunction or fail to turn on. The protection circuit features asynchronous operation of a pair of MOSFETs co...