ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,737, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method for role-based data transmission using physically unclonable function (PUF)-based keys" was invented by Mei-Chien Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes encrypting a first message that contains a first public key of a first peer, by using a second public key of a second peer; and decrypting a second message sent from the second peer by using a first private key paired with the first public key. The second message may be encrypted at the second peer by using the first public key, and ma...