US Patent Issued to ANAMETRIC on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for implementing structures for physical unclonable functions" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,906, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ANAMETRIC INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for implementing structures for physical unclonable functions" was invented by Duncan L. MacFarlane (Dallas), Mitchell A. Thornton (Dallas), William V. Oxford (Austin, Texas), Hiva Shahoei (Dallas), Evan Jacob Stewart (Dallas) and Stephen Keith Heinrich-Barna (Lucas, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of PUF systems utilizing photonic circuits to generate a PUF signature based on a state of polarization of photons are disclosed. Embodiments of such PUFs may comprise substantially the same circuitry that may be operated in the clas...