US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 18 for "Physically unclonable function cells with hot carrier injection" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,282, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Physically unclonable function cells with hot carrier injection" was invented by Mahmut Ersin Sinangil (Los Altos, Calif.), Sudhir Shrikantha Kudva (Dublin, Calif.) and Yan He (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices including an arrangement of multiple of physically unclonable function (PUF) cells organized to generate a bit pattern, and wherein the PUF cells each includes multiple inverting stages, each inverting stage configured to enable a short circuit between outputs of a pair of inverters to enable accelerated aging of one of the inverters."

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