US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 24 for "Secure programming of one-time-programmable (OTP) memory" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,779, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Secure programming of one-time-programmable (OTP) memory" was invented by Arun Krishnan (Smithtown, N.Y.), Eileen Marando (Bellmore, N.Y.) and Ravindra Kumar (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have a plurality of defined life cycle stages and a one-time-programmable (OTP) memory comprising a plurality of life cycle bits, wherein respective bit patterns of the life cycle bits may correspond with respective life cycle stages of the defined life cycle stages. The electronic device may also have a boot code stored i...