ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,725, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method for discharging static electricity" was invented by Wei-Min Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ming-Dou Ker (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Yu Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Li-Wei Chu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a T-coil circuit, a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR), and a signal-loss prevention circuit. The T-coil circuit is coupled to an input/output (I/O) pad and an internal circuit. The SCR is coupled to the T-coil circuit and the internal circuit. The signal-loss prevention circui...