ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,731, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"One-time-programmable (OTP) memory with error detection" was invented by Nicholas Justin Mountford Spence (Phoenix) and Jorge Ernesto Perez Chamorro (Preverenges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a one-time-programmable (OTP) memory is configured to, in response to a write request to program a single bit of an OTP value to the OTP memory, program a bit of the OTP value in the OTP memory, generate a set of PCBs corresponding to the OTP value, and program the PCBs into the OTP memory. Each PCB of the set of PCBs is generated as a logic fun...