US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Nov. 3 for "Secure chip capable of generating secure data by itself" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,440, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Secure chip capable of generating secure data by itself" was invented by Yung-Hui Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen-Tung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Wea Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure chip capable of generating secure data by itself. The secure chip can generate secure data of uniqueness without using a circuit having a physically unclonable function (PUF) that is based on process variations. The secure chip includes a true random number generator (TRNG), a control circuit, and a secure storage circuit. The TRNG is configu...