ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,284, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SK keyfoundry Inc. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Electrical fuse one time programmable (OTP) memory" was invented by Seong Jun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jong Min Cho (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Sung Bum Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Kee Sik Ahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eFuse cell is provided. The eFuse cell may include a first PMOS transistor and a first NMOS transistor configured to receive a programmed state selection (BLOWB) signal, a second PMOS transistor and a second NMOS transistor configured to receive a write word line bar (WWLB) for a prog...