US Patent Issued to VIA LABS on Oct. 6 for "Integrated circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,182, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to VIA LABS INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit" was invented by Wei-Yu Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Chung Wei (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit including a signal connection pad, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit, and an input stage circuit is provided. The ESD protection circuit is coupled to the signal connection pad. An input terminal of the input stage circuit is coupled to the ESD protection circuit. The input stage circuit includes a load circuit, a current source circuit, an input transistor, and an impeda...