US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on May 6 for "Physical unclonable function configuration and readout" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,664, issued on May 6, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Physical unclonable function configuration and readout" was invented by William Michael James Holland (Edinburgh, Great Britain), George Redfield Spalding Jr. (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to configuring at least one pair of devices in a physical unclonable function (PUF) apparatus and reading out at least one pair of devices for determining a persistent random PUF output. The pair of devices may be readout by measuri...