H05K 1/0259
Electrostatic discharge [esd] protection
Official title: {Electrostatic discharge [ESD] protection}
H05K1/0259 (Electrostatic discharge [esd] protection) appears on 532 US grants and 618 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H05K- Granted patents
- 532
- Published applications
- 618
- Assignees
- 314
- Inventors
- 1,336
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 24 | 18 |
| 2024 | 21 | 31 |
| 2025 | 13 | 15 |
| 2026 | 16 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Electrostatic discharge protection for sensors in wound therapy29 Sep 2026US 12,745,951 B2Smith & Nephew, Inc.
- Electronic device1 Sep 2026US 12,727,075 B2Innolux Corporation
- Techniques for protecting integrated circuitry from plasma-induced electrostatic discharge using a carrier substrate with junction features25 Aug 2026US 12,721,180 B2Intel Corporation
- Electrostatic discharge collector28 Jul 2026US 12,696,381 B2Wiliot, Ltd.
- Flexible circuit board and display module28 Jul 2026US 12,696,382 B2Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- High-voltage printed circuit board with integrated plasma discharge electrodes for scalable plasma-based water treatment systems13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239528 A1Black Spark Inc
- Composite electronic component6 Aug 2026US 2026/0231322 A1TDK Corporation
- Composite electronic component6 Aug 2026US 2026/0231330 A1TDK Corporation
- Usb charger for vehicle23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213558 A1Unick Corporation
- Printed circuit board with healable features25 Jun 2026US 2026/0181767 A1SanDisk Technologies LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- ESD-protected head gimbal assembly for use in a disk drive99US 6,801,402 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Flexible circuits with static discharge protection and process for manufacture81US 6,316,734 B13M Innovative Properties Company · 2001
- Method and shunting and deshunting an electrical component and a shuntable/shunted electrical component80US 6,146,813 AApplied Kinetics, Inc. · 2000
- Variable voltage protection structures and method for making same78US 6,239,687 B1SurgX Corporation · 2001
- Variable voltage protection structures and method for making same70US 6,310,752 B1SurgX Corporation · 2001