US Patent Issued to Kansas State University Research Foundation on Dec. 9 for "PUF-rake: a PUF-based robust and lightweight authentication and key establishment protocol" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,681, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.).

"PUF-rake: a PUF-based robust and lightweight authentication and key establishment protocol" was invented by Mahmood Azhar Qureshi (Manhattan, Kan.) and Arslan Munir (Manhattan, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low-resource overhead computer-implemented methods for enrolling, authenticating and establishing encryption keys for one or more queried devices, each of the queried devices including an electrical circuit configured to output electrical signals indica-five of a physically unclonable function (PUF) of the queried device. Au...