ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,093, issued on June 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method for protecting anti-fuse cell" was invented by Meng-Sheng Chang (Chu-bei, Taiwan) and Chia-En Huang (Xinfeng Township, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes an anti-fuse cell array having a plurality of anti-fuse cells, each of the plurality of anti-fuse cells having a first transistor and a second transistor connected to the first transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor is connected to a bit line and the bit line is a buried rail formed in a substrate of the first transistor and the sec...