US Patent Issued to MACRONIX International on Oct. 20 for "Extraction method of physically unclonable function and memory device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,692, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MACRONIX International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Extraction method of physically unclonable function and memory device" was invented by You-Liang Chou (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Wen-Jer Tsai (Hualien County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an extraction method for a physically unclonable function (PUF) and a memory device. The memory device may be a three-dimensional NAND flash memory with high capacity and high performance. The extraction method includes: providing a memory block, the memory block includes a plurality of memory sub-blocks; selecting a plurality of memor...