ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,968, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Semiconductor device having fuse array" was invented by Yasushi Matsubara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Minoru Someya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory chip including a plurality of fuse units, and a controller chip. Each fuse unit includes a fuse array having a plurality of fuse cells, a first register, and a second register. The controller is configured to set the fuse address in the second register included in selected one or more of the plurality of fuse units, set the match signal in the first register included in the selec...