US Patent Issued to Altera on May 12 for "Methods and apparatus to derive and verify virtual physical unclonable keys" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,513, issued on May 12, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to derive and verify virtual physical unclonable keys" was invented by Tat Kin Tan (Penang, Malaysia), Siew Chin Lim (Penang, Malaysia) and Boon Khai Ng (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: retrieve a random number and a physical unclonable function (PUF) from a trusted environment; generate a virtual PUF (vPUF) based on a trusted operation including the rando...