US Patent Issued to Crypto Quantique on Jan. 27 for "Reconfigurable, high stability gate-tunneling physical unclonable function" (British, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,699, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Crypto Quantique Ltd. (London).

"Reconfigurable, high stability gate-tunneling physical unclonable function" was invented by Matthew Douthwaite (Copenhagen, Denmark), Ranganathan Desikachari (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew James Schormans (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a circuit for a physical unclonable function comprising: first and second outputs; a cell comprising a plurality of CMOS devices; and a plurality of switching devices, the plurality of switching devices operable to connect a gate terminal of each of the plurality of CMOS devices ...