US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) on Nov. 3 for "One-time programmable memory cell" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,270, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"One-time programmable memory cell" was invented by Lia Masoero (Marseilles, France) and Patrick Calenzo (Peypin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-time programmable memory cell includes a transistor coupled to a capacitor. The transistor includes at least one first conductive gate element arranged in at least one first trench formed in a semiconductor substrate, and at least one first channel portion buried in the substrate and extending at the level of at least a first lateral surface of the at least one first conductive gate element...