ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,737, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

"Program-read-erase schemes to protect PUF challenge-response-pairs with pre-formed ReRAMS" was invented by Bertrand F. Cambou (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Ian Burke (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Taylor Begay (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and David Kuan-Yu Liu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements and methods for a program-read-erase memory using ReRAM cells is disclosed. The memory includes an array of pristine ReRAM cells. A first digital symbol is encoded in the memory by partially forming cells, while the opposite ...