US Patent Issued to WINBOND ELECTRONICS on Feb. 10 for "Semiconductor memory device and controlling method thereof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,495, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor memory device and controlling method thereof" was invented by Toshio Ninomiya (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory unit and an error detection and correction unit. The memory unit is an OTP memory including a data memory and a check memory. The data memory is written with replacement address information detected during a redundancy repair operation and corresponding to a defective memory cell of a memory cell array. The check memory is written with check information detected d...