Adesto Technologies/Renesas Assigned Patent

Adesto Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, (acquired by Dialog Semiconductor/Renesas Electronics Corp.), has been assigned a patent (11537754) developed by Jameson, John R., Menlo Park, CA, Kim, David, Sunnyvale, CA, and Koushan, Foroozan Sarah, San Jose, CA, for “pseudo physically unclonable functions (pufs) using one or more addressable arrays of elements having random/pseudo-random values.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An integrated circuit device can include a plurality of nonvolatile memory elements having values that vary randomly or pseudo-randomly from one another, a selection circuit configured to select a plurality of nonvolatile memory elements that vary randomly or pseudo-randomly in response to a received challenge value, and sense circuits configured to generate a response value based on the values of the selected nonvolatile memory elements. Related methods and systems are also disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-09-13 (16/571051).