US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Semiconductor device identification using preformed resistive memory" (American, South Korean, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,034, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Semiconductor device identification using preformed resistive memory" was invented by Takashi Ando (Eastchester, N.Y.), Jonas Doevenspeck (Herent, Belgium), Youngseok Kim (Upper Saddle River, N.J.), Soon-Cheon Seo (Glenmont, N.Y.) and Seyoung Kim (Pohang, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of resistive memory element structures, at least a subset of the plurality of resistive memory element structures being associated with random analog resistive states. The random analog resistive states ...