ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,541, issued on April 21, was assigned to United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"One-time programmable memory structure" was invented by Kuo-Hsing Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chi-Horn Pai (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chang Chien Wong (Tainan City, Taiwan), Sheng-Yuan Hsueh (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ching Hsiang Tseng (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Shih-Chieh Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-time programmable memory structure comprises: A transistor includes a gate. A capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulating layer. The second electrode is disposed on the first electrod...