US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Sept. 16 for "Electrically programmable fuse over crystalline semiconductor materials" (Vermont, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,975, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Electrically programmable fuse over crystalline semiconductor materials" was invented by Johnatan A. Kantarovsky (South Burlington, Vt.), Santosh Sharma (Austin, Texas), Michael J. Zierak (Colchester, Vt.), Steven J. Bentley (Menands, N.Y.) and Ephrem G. Gebreselasie (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electrically programmable fuse (efuse) over crystalline semiconductor material. A structure according to the disclosure includes a plurality of crystalline semiconductor layers. Each crystalline...