US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS on Nov. 3 for "Physically unclonable function device and method for fabricating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,990, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Physically unclonable function device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Chang-Yih Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan), Kuo-Hsing Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chun-Hsien Lin (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 PUF cell array having a plurality of unit cells, in which each of the unit cells includes a transistor and a first metal-oxide semiconductor capacitor (MOSCAP) and a second MOSCAP coupled to the tr...