US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 25 for "Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit using tie-cell technique" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,266, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit using tie-cell technique" was invented by Tao-Yi Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jam-Wem Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wun-Jie Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Ji Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit, which includes internal circuitry; a pre-driver, a switch device, a post-driver, and an I/O pad. The internal circuitry is configured to generate an input/output (I/O) signal. The pre-driver is configured to generate a...