ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,738, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kratos SRE Inc. (San Diego).

"Physically unclonable functions using pulse width chaotic maps" was invented by Seth D. Cohen (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are provided for clockless physically unclonable functions (PUFs) in reconfigurable devices. Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include processing circuitry configured to perform numerous operations. The operations can include receiving a challenge continuous pulse signal, and generating a response continuous pulse signal by iteratively extending the challenge continuous pulse signal in time-domain. In som...