ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,890, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PUFSECURITY Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Method for operating a memory device and memory device thereof" was invented by Chi-Yi Shao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chia-Cho Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method for operating a memory device. The memory device includes a plurality of rows of repair one-time programmable (OTP) cells and a plurality of rows of main OTP cells. The method includes performing a testing procedure to determine validities of the plurality of rows of repair OTP cells and store repair information to a first pa...