US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Sept. 1 for "Generation of a cryptographic key from an SRAM memory" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,930, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Generation of a cryptographic key from an SRAM memory" was invented by Maria Ramirez-Corrales (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Jean-Philippe Noel (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for generating a cryptographic key from an SRAM memory and device implements such a method. The method includes steps of biased initialisation of a first set of cells located in a first region of the SRAM memory so as to promote the establishment, in a first logic state, of the cells of the first set, storing, in a se...