US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Oct. 14 for "I/O circuit design for SRAM-based PUF generators" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,312, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"I/O circuit design for SRAM-based PUF generators" was invented by Jui-Che Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Shih-Lien Linus Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng Hung Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-En Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an input/output circuit for a physical unclonable function generator circuit. In one embodiment, a physical unclonable function (PUF) generator includes: a PUF cell array comprising a plurality of bit cells configured in a plurality of columns and at least one row, and at least one ...