ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,787, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intelligent Information Security Technology Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device with multiple hardware signatures from a single PUF circuit source and related methods and applications" was invented by Wai-Chi Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Nicolas Jean Roger Fahier (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Meng-Ting Wan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kai-Yuan Guo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Bo-Ting Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device interfaced with a multiple digital signatures security engine, internally or externally, which enable the device to obtain PUF-based security credentials with the option to genera...