US Patent Issued to IHP GmbH-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Leibniz-Instit. fur innovative Mikroelektronik on July 28 for "Monitoring of a local environment using a physical unclonable function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,241, issued on July 28, was assigned to IHP GmbH-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics/Leibniz-Instit. fur innovative Mikroelektronik (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Monitoring of a local environment using a physical unclonable function" was invented by Lara Wimmer (Frankfurt, Germany), Eckhard Grass (Frankfurt, Germany) and Ulrich Ruhrmair (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a method for assessing a physical unclonable function using a response of a fixed local environment to electromagnetic challenge signals. It comprises providing an electromagnetic challenge signal with a correspondi...