ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,610, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Koichi Takeda (Tokyo), Akihiko Kanda (Tokyo) and Takahiro Shimoi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp element 46 applies a fixed potential to a bit line BL at a time of a readout operation. A reference current source RCS generates a reference current Iref. An offset current source OCS1 is activated at a time of a readout operation for an OTP cell OTPC, and at a time of being activated, generates an offset current Iof1 to be subtracted from a cell current Icel. At the time of the readout operation for the OTP cel...