US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Read-only memory for chip security that is MOSFET process compatible" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,911, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Read-only memory for chip security that is MOSFET process compatible" was invented by Tenko Yamashita (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Effendi Leobandung (Stormville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (MOSFET) device electrically attachable to a first data line and a read-only memory (ROM) element. The ROM element is electrically interposable between the MOSFET device and a second data line. The ROM element includes first and...