ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,473, issued on June 10, was assigned to Faraday Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic fuse device and operation method thereof" was invented by Chi-Chou Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yun-Chuan Teng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Tang Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an electronic fuse (eFuse) device and an operation method thereof. The eFuse device includes an eFuse, a readout circuit, a register, and a safety control device. The readout circuit reads out target data recorded by the eFuse to the register and the safety control device. The safety control device compares the target data provid...