US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Nov. 3 for "Hamming distance based matching for PUF strings" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,991, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hamming distance based matching for PUF strings" was invented by Geert Jan Schrijen (Roermond, Netherlands) and Roel Maes (Geel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to matching a received PUF string. For example, a matching enrollment PUF string may be found by searching for a matching enrollment PUF string in a database. The searching may include iteratively determining if a Hamming distance between the received PUF string and an enrollment PUF string retrieved from the database is below a threshold at least until a matching en...