US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 10 for "Electrostatic discharge protection circuit with diode string" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,449, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrostatic discharge protection circuit with diode string" was invented by Pin-Hsin Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Heng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsin-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first horizontal conductor and a second horizontal conductor. The integrated circuit includes a first diode between a first first-type block and a first second-type block, a second diode between a second first-type block and a second second-type block, and a third diode between a third fir...