ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,896, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset Cedex, France).
"Physical unclonable function device and method" was invented by Francesco La Rosa (Rousset, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment system comprises a physical unclonable function device, wherein the device comprises a first assembly of non-volatile memory cells each having a selection transistor embedded in a semiconductor substrate and a depletion-type state transistor having a control gate and a floating gate that are electrically connected, the state transistors having respective effective threshold voltages belonging ...