US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on May 19 for "Reconfigurable bitcell for PUF key generation" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,332, issued on May 19, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Reconfigurable bitcell for PUF key generation" was invented by Eric Hunt-Schroeder (Essex Junction, Vt.) and Tian Xia (Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a physical unclonable function (PUF) key uses a value read from an array of bitcells in rows defined by pairs of true and complement wordlines and columns defined by pairs of true and complement bitlines, each bitcell having a pull-up network coupled to a complement wordline and to the true and complement bitlines, and having a pull-down network coupled to a true wordline and ...