ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,461, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dielectric film based one-time programmable (OTP) memory cell" was invented by Abhijeet Paul (Escondido, Calif.) and Mishel Matloubian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for a semiconductor structure. In an aspect, a semiconductor structure includes a conductive element on an isolation structure, a dielectric film, a first contact structure, wherein at least a portion of the dielectric film is disposed between the conductive element and the first contact structure, and a second contact structure disposed on and electrically coupled with ...