US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on March 24 for "System and method for non-bypassable and unclonable microelectronic device fingerprinting" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,833, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for non-bypassable and unclonable microelectronic device fingerprinting" was invented by Reginald D. Bean (Center Point, Iowa), John H. Davidson (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Bryce A. Poellet (Marion, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for provisioning a microelectronic (ME) component or device for non-bypassable, unclonable electronic device fingerprinting includes receiving an initialization vector from a provisioning device. A physically unclonable function (PUF) incorporated into the ME device (and unique to that ME devic...