US Patent Issued to ATTOPSEMI TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 25 for "Physically unclonable function produced using OTP memory" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,429, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ATTOPSEMI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Physically unclonable function produced using OTP memory" was invented by Shine C. Chung (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and method of generating a Physically Unclonable Function ("PUF") value is disclosed. An OTP memory with a plurality of OTP cells that can be reliably and deterministically programmed with a minimum and a maximum program voltage being selected for pre-conditioning. All OTP cells can be programmed at least once around the minimum program voltage to hide the program status. Data to be program...