US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Oct. 7 for "Secure communication between server device and clients utilizing strong physical unclonable functions" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,736, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Secure communication between server device and clients utilizing strong physical unclonable functions" was invented by Shih-Lien Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device is fabricated using a semiconductor fabrication process. One or more uncontrollable random physical processes in the semiconductor fabrication process can cause small differences between the client device and other client devices. When the client device is presented with a challenge from a server device, the client device generates a random ...