US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 26 for "Systems and methods for providing reliable physically unclonable functions" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,941, issued on May 26, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Systems and methods for providing reliable physically unclonable functions" was invented by Shih-Lien Linus Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-En Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are provided for determining a reliability of a physically unclonable function (PUF) cell of a device. A first signal is provided to a first branch of a PUF cell and a second signal is provided to a second branch of the PUF cell, the first and second signals being provided in synchronization. A base PUF cell value is determi...