US Patent Issued to Intel on July 14 for "One-time programmable (OTP) arrays with metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) selectors for integrated circuitry" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,969, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"One-time programmable (OTP) arrays with metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) selectors for integrated circuitry" was invented by Yao-Feng Chang (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One-time programmable (OTP) bit-cell for an integrated circuit (IC) that includes an OTP element, such as a fuse or antifuse, coupled in electrical series with a selector that comprises a Schottky junction. The selector may comprise a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) material stack operable as transient voltage suppression (TVS) device that experiences electrical breakdown at...