US Patent Issued to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 24 for "Physical unclonable function generator structure and operation method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,513, issued on March 24, was assigned to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Physical unclonable function generator structure and operation method thereof" was invented by Bo-An Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shyng-Yeuan Che (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Shih-Ping Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical unclonable function (PUF) generator structure including a substrate and a PUF generator is provided. The PUF generator includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a first dielectric layer, a first contact, a second contact, and a third contact. The first electrode l...