US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 2 for "Self-erasable and rewritable optoexcitonic platform for anti-tamper hardware" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,947, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Self-erasable and rewritable optoexcitonic platform for anti-tamper hardware" was invented by Jinsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Parag Deotare (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Da Seul Yang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Che-Hsuan Cheng (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-tamper module includes a substrate and a photoisomerization (PI) layer formed on the substrate. The PI layer comprises molecules configured to transition from a first state to a second state in response to exposure to a first type of light and transition from the secon...