US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 8 for "Semiconductor device and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,335, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of operating the same" was invented by Sohyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yunho Youm (Osan-si, South Korea) and Myungsik Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a one-time programmable (OTP) memory device, a key register and a key protection control logic. The OTP memory device stores a secret value, a key protection bit indicating whether to protect the secret value, and an end of life bit indicating whether to discard the semiconductor device. The key register loa...