ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,141, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cryptography Research Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating a target data based on a function associated with a physical variation of a device" was invented by Mark Evan Marson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Scott C. Best (Palo Alto, Calif.), Helena Handschuh (Miami) and Winthrop John Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A value corresponding to a physical variation of a device may be received. Furthermore, helper data associated with the physical variation of the device may be received. A result data may be generated based on a combination of the value corresponding to the physical vari...