ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,644, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit for physically unclonable function and method of operating the same" was invented by Sung Ung Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit for a physically unclonable function (PUF) includes a controller configured to generate a control signal with reference to an address table, the address table representing a first mapping relationship between a first PUF cell group and a second PUF cell group having a first predetermined mismatch distance in relation to a PUF cell characteristic, and r...