ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,962, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Reliable programming of one-time programmable (OTP) memory during device testing" was invented by Ziv Hershman (Givat Shmuel, Israel), Dana Agur (Herzliya, Israel) and Alain Bismuth (Kibbutz Beth Rimon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing one or more signals to an electronic device for performing a test procedure that involves programming a One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory in the electronic device. A verification is made as to whether connection of the one or more signals to the electronic device is stable, by performing...