US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS on June 16 for "Method for fabricating physically unclonable function device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,629, issued on June 16, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Method for fabricating physically unclonable function device" was invented by Hung-Chan Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chang-Yih Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a physically unclonable function (PUF) device includes the steps of first providing a substrate comprising a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) region, a PUF cell region, and a non-PUF cell region, forming a first metal interconnection on the MRAM region, forming a second metal interconnection on the PUF cell region, and fo...