US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 24 for "Generation of physically unclonable function using one-time-programmable memory devices with backside interconnect structures" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,512, issued on March 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Generation of physically unclonable function using one-time-programmable memory devices with backside interconnect structures" was invented by Yuhsiang Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Meng-Sheng Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a memory cell randomly presenting a first logic state or a second logic state and formed on a first side of a substrate, and a first and a second bit lines formed on a second side of the substrate opposite to the first side. The memory cell includes...