US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS on June 3 for "Interconnects for physically unclonable function and method of achieving physically unclonable function through interconnects" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,287, issued on June 3, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Interconnects for physically unclonable function and method of achieving physically unclonable function through interconnects" was invented by Chang-Yih Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-Wen Chen (Chiayi County, Taiwan) and Chia-Chen Sun (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect for physically unclonable function (PUF), comprised of multiple arranged PUF cells. Each PUF cell includes at least two L-shaped metal line, wherein each L-shaped metal line includes a first part and a second part and is adjacent to a dummy metal line, and...