[May 06, 2013] Semiconductor Components Industries Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 6 -- Semiconductor Components Industries, Phoenix, has been assigned a patent (8,431,959) developed by T. Jordan Davis, Phoenix, and Ali Salih, Mesa, Ariz., for a "method of forming an ESD protection device and structure therefor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a bi-directional ESD device is formed to have a third harmonic at frequencies no less than about one gigahertz wherein the third harmonic has a magnitude that is no greater than about minus thirty five dBm." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2010 (12/907,633). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,431,959&OS=8,431,959&RS=8,431,959 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. AS0506AK0506-874080 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]