US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Key generation unit with physical unclonable function, key generator and circuit system" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,914, issued on June 24, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Key generation unit with physical unclonable function, key generator and circuit system" was invented by Ming-Hung Wu (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key generation technology of the present disclosure does not additionally set a combinational logic circuit on an original path of a scanning flip-flop, but utilizes a plurality of existing combinational logic circuits in a circuit system to generate multiple values of a key. Correspondingly, a key generation unit used in the key generation technology has two data flip-flo...