ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,917, issued on March 25, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Storage device for generating identity code and identity code generating method" was invented by Yu-Hsuan Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Dai-Ying Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ming-Hsiu Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device for generating an identity code, includes a first storage circuit, a second storage circuit and a reading circuit. The first storage circuit stores several first data having several bits. The second storage circuit stores several second data having several bits. The reading circuit reads the sec...