ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,204, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PUFsecurity Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Entropy source circuit and entropy value generation method" was invented by Chi-Yi Shao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Kai-Hsin Chuang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Meng-Yi Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entropy source circuit, comprising: a first adjustable ring oscillator for operating under a first setting or a second setting according to a first control signal, for respectively generating a first oscillation clock signal and a second oscillation clock signal which have different frequencies under the first setting and the ...