US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 23 for "One-time programmable memory devices and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,293, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"One-time programmable memory devices and methods" was invented by Deniz Bozdag (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Juan P. Saenz (Menlo Park, Calif.), Dimitri Houssameddine (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mark Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a memory cell having a reversible resistance-switching memory element coupled in series with a selector element. The selector element has a first resistance. The resistance-switching memory element is configured to reversibly switch between a second resistance and a thi...