ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,119, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hot carrier injection programming and security" was invented by Yu-Lin Chao (Portland, Ore.), Zhanping Chen (Portland, Ore.), Sarvesh Kulkarni (Hillsboro, Ore.), Rachael Parker (Forest Grove, Ore.) and Jyothi Bhaskarr Velamala (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hot carrier injection (HCI) may be used to provide various improvements for one-time programmable (OTP) read-only memory (ROM) or physical unclonable function (PUF) circuits. HCI may be used to write a memory bit (e.g., logical 0 or 1), which may be used in OTP ROM. HCI may be used to pr...