ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,922, issued on March 25, was assigned to TOWER PARTNERS SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Uozu, Japan) and TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR LTD. (Migdal Haemek, Israel).

"Semiconductor device for writing to a storage element" was invented by Hiroshige Hirano (Nara, Japan), Hiroaki Kuriyama (Toyama, Japan), Masahiko Sakagami (Kyoto, Japan), Micha Gutman (Haifa, Israel), Erez Sarig (Kadima, Israel) and Yakov Roizin (Afula, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a storage element write unit including a storage element configured to be electrically written only once and store two values, a write controller connected to the stora...