US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Hot carrier injection hardened physically unclonable function circuit" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,180, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hot carrier injection hardened physically unclonable function circuit" was invented by Rachael Parker (Forest Grove, Ore.) and Jyothi Bhaskarr Velamala (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide apparatuses, systems, and methods for a hot carrier injection (HCI) physically unclonable function (PUF) circuit. For example, described herein is a HCI PUF circuit with n-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistors and a Pi-shaped reset structure. Other embodiments may be described and claimed."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18,...