US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Dec. 23 for "Back-end-of-line compatible physically unclonable function memory device and system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,093, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Back-end-of-line compatible physically unclonable function memory device and system" was invented by Meng-Han Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-En Huang (Xinfeng, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells. Each of the memory cells includes a transistor coupled to a first capacitor and a second capacitor in series, respectively. The memory system includes an authentication circuit operatively coupled to the memory array. The authentication circuit is configured ...