US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Oct. 20 for "One-time-programmable memory devices" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,444, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"One-time-programmable memory devices" was invented by Shao-Ting Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Sheng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells. At least a first one of the memory cells, by default, permanently presents a first logic state based on a short circuit. At least a second one of the memory cells, by default, permanently presents a second logic state opposite to the first logic state based on an open ci...