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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2023
Applicant:
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Llc, Kansas City, MO (US);
Inventors:
Joshua Joseph Trujillo, Overland Park, KS (US);
Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC, Kansas City, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/08 (2006.01); H01L 23/00 (2006.01); H01L 29/78 (2006.01); H03K 3/03 (2006.01); H10B 10/00 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 23/576 (2013.01); H01L 29/0843 (2013.01); H01L 29/78 (2013.01); H03K 3/0315 (2013.01); H10B 10/12 (2023.02);
Abstract
Systems, methods, circuits, and devices for providing and using transistors in a physically unclonable function (PUF) circuit. The transistors comprise a split source drain configuration including one or more inflection segments that increase process variations between the transistors such that each transistor generates a unique output signal.