US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and method for generating hardware-based physical unclonable functions and their use" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,104, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for generating hardware-based physical unclonable functions and their use" was invented by Nan Du (Chemnitz, Germany), Heidemarie Schmidt (Chemnitz, Germany), Stefan Schulz (Chemnitz, Germany), Ilia Polian (Stuttgart, Germany) and Danilo Buerger (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a binary numerical sequence is provided. The apparatus is configured to apply a first write voltage or a second write voltage, different from the first write voltage, as a write...