US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 1 for "Integrated circuit (IC) signatures with random number generator and one-time programmable device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,626, issued on July 1, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit (IC) signatures with random number generator and one-time programmable device" was invented by Shih-Lien Linus Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kun-Hsi Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Liang Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Der Chih (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-En Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of generating a security key for an integrated circuit device include generating a plurality of key bits with a physically unclonable function (PUF) device. The P...