US Patent Issued to Clemson University Research Foundation on July 8 for "Physical unclonable function from an integrated photonic interferometer" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,568, issued on July 8, was assigned to Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, S.C.).

"Physical unclonable function from an integrated photonic interferometer" was invented by Judson D. Ryckman (Clemson, S.C.), Yingjie Lao (Clemson, S.C.), Farhan Bin-Tarik (Clemson, S.C.) and Azadeh Gholamrezazadeh-Famili (Clemson, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of producing unclonable devices are disclosed. Robust optical physical unclonable function devices use disordered photonic integrated circuits. Optical physical unclonable functions based on speckle patterns, chaos, or 'strong' disorder are so far notoriously ...