US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on July 22 for "Secure verification of physical unclonable function" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,606, issued on July 22, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Secure verification of physical unclonable function" was invented by Chen Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jun Yu (Northborough, Mass.) and Kaichuan Chang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes apparatuses and methods for implementing secure verification of a physical unclonable function (PUF). In various aspects, a PUF verifier generates a PUF reagent value by obtaining a key from a PUF and a message value useful for PUF verification. The PUF verifier computes a digest value of the PUF key and the message value and selects a ...