US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on July 8 for "One-time programmable (OTP) memory controller with a control circuit configured to assert a pre-load start signal and a pre-load end signal, related processing system, integrated circuit and method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,880, issued on July 8, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"One-time programmable (OTP) memory controller with a control circuit configured to assert a pre-load start signal and a pre-load end signal, related processing system, integrated circuit and method" was invented by Antonino Giuseppe Fontana (Lentini, Italy), Giuseppe Guarnaccia (San Gregorio di Catania, Italy) and Stefano Catalano (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory controller includes a data register, a given number K of shadow-registers, wherein the number K is smaller than a giv...