US Patent Issued to United Microelectronics on Sept. 9 for "Physical unclonable function generator and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,848, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Physical unclonable function generator and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Po Hsien Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Ping-Chia Shih (Tainan, Taiwan), Che Hao Kuo (Tainan, Taiwan), Chia-Min Hung (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Hua Yeh (Tainan, Taiwan) and Wan-Chun Liao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical unclonable function (PUF) generator including a substrate and semiconductor units is provided. Each of the semiconductor units includes an isolation structure, a first conductive line, and a second conductive line. The ...