ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,956, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Jmem Technology Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Multi-state one-time programmable memory circuit" was invented by Chen-Feng Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Chen Lo (Taipei, Taiwan), Tsung-Han Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shu-Chieh Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Liang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Dong-Yu Wu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Meng-Lin Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multi-state one-time programmable (MSOTP) memory circuit including a memory cell and a programming voltage driving circuit. The memory cell includes a MOS storage transistor, a first MOS access tr...