ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,224, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Device with self-authentication" was invented by Haohua Zhou (Fremont, Calif.) and Sandeep Kumar Goel (Dublin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is disclosed. The device includes a first memory circuit and a processing circuit. The first memory circuit stores identifications of the device that are used to generate first hash data through a hash algorithm. The processing circuit is coupled to the first memory circuit and selects at least one bit of each of the identifications in sequence to form a bit sequence, genera...