US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Nov. 4 for "Image processing and authentication of unclonable functions" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,593, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Image processing and authentication of unclonable functions" was invented by Young L Kim (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Jung Woo Leem (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of authenticating an item is disclosed which includes applying light to an item, wherein the item includes a random distribution of fluorescent particles disposed thereon, capturing one or more images from the item, generating a cryptographic pattern from the one or more captured images by a host processing system, communicating the cryptographic pattern to...