US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 23 for "Systems and methods of physically unclonable function (PUF)-based key derivation function" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,774, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods of physically unclonable function (PUF)-based key derivation function" was invented by Niklas Lindskog (Lund, Sweden) and Hakan Englund (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions and methods are disclosed herein for generating a key from outputs of a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) and using the key for a cryptographic algorithm. In one embodiment, a device generates the key, which comprises (i) receiving a request to generate a key comprising a defined number of bits for a particular cryptography algorith...