ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,256, issued on May 19, was assigned to STMicroelectronics France (Montrouge, France).
"Passive electrostatic-discharge sensor and method for detecting electrostatic discharges" was invented by Philippe Galy (Le Touvet, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit is formed by a semiconductor part with a semiconductor substrate and an interconnection part including levels of metals. An electrostatic-discharge sensor includes a semiconductor structure in the semiconductor part and a network of metal antennas in the interconnection part. The electrostatic-discharge sensor has at least one pair of two nodes having one of a ...