US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore on July 14 for "Active region electrically programmable fuse with gate structure as silicide block" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,147, issued on July 14, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Active region electrically programmable fuse with gate structure as silicide block" was invented by Thanh Hoa Phung (Singapore), Myo Aung Maung (Singapore), Hari Balan (Singapore) and Anurag Swarnkar (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically programmable fuse includes a first contact, a second contact spaced from the first contact, and a link between and electrically connecting the first contact and the second contact. The first contact, the second contact and the link include semiconductor material. A gate structure is partially...