US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 22 for "Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit including an avalanche semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR) with parallel connected static trigger control circuit (TCC)" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,464, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit including an avalanche semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR) with parallel connected static trigger control circuit (TCC)" was invented by Leonardo Di Biccari (Monza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two terminal semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR) device has an anode terminal coupled to a first node and a cathode terminal coupled to a second node. Neither of the cathode gate or anode gate of the SCR device are connected to a triggering circuit for controlling turn on of the SCR dev...