US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 18 for "Electrical fuse (e-fuse) one-time programmable (OTP) device and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,133, issued on March 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electrical fuse (e-fuse) one-time programmable (OTP) device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Alexander Kalnitsky (San Francisco), Wei-Cheng Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Harry-Hak-Lay Chuang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chia Wen Liang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Li-Feng Teng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an isolation structure, a conductive structure, and a first contact structure. The isolation structure is disposed in the substrate. The conductive ...