US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 23 for "Masking techniques for memory applications" (French, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,292, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Masking techniques for memory applications" was invented by Ettore Amirante (Nice, France), Vivek Asthana (Greater Noida, India), Yew Keong Chong (Austin, Texas) and Jean-Christophe Vial (Biot - Sophia Antipolis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein are related to a device including a bitcell having a bitcell layout with a first metal layer, a second metal layer and a via programming layer. The device may have a via marking layer provided in the bitcell layout for the bitcell, and the via marking layer controls op...