ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,973, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device with shared data store and operating method thereof" was invented by Byungchan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mingon Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yejun Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghoon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngjin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a memory device which includes a memory controller comprising a plurality of cores, each of the plurality of cores associated with a respective OTP access key; and a one-time programmable (OTP) memory comprising a plurality of r...