US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Jan. 13 for "SRAM physically unclonable function (PUF) memory for generating keys based on device owner" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,579, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"SRAM physically unclonable function (PUF) memory for generating keys based on device owner" was invented by Eileen Marando (Bellmore, N.Y.), Richard Wahler (Saint James, N.Y.) and Arun Krishnan (Smithtown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device with boot code, first mutable code stored in non-volatile memory, a first owner information stored in the non-volatile memory, and an SRAM with an SRAM physically unclonable function (SRAM PUF) region. Boot code may generate a first unique private key based on both the first owner information and a port...