US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Feb. 25 for "Method and apparatus for protecting a PUF generator" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,001, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for protecting a PUF generator" was invented by Shih-Lien Linus Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for protecting a physical unclonable function (PUF) generator are disclosed. In one example, a PUF generator is disclosed. The PUF generator includes a PUF cell array, a PUF control circuit and a reset circuit. The PUF cell array comprises a plurality of bit cells. Each of the plurality of bit cells is configurable into at least two different stable states. The PUF control ci...