US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY on July 7 for "Physically unclonable function cell and operation method of the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,172, issued on July 7, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Physically unclonable function cell and operation method of the same" was invented by Chia-Che Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Jung Tsen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ya-Jui Tsou (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chee-Wee Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provided. The device includes a physical unclonable function (PUF) cell array. The PUF cell array includes multiple bit cells, and generates a PUF response output, in response to a challenge input, based on a data state of one...