US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE on Aug. 19 for "Key holder for an optical key and system comprising the key holder for authenticating an optical key by verifying a match of challenge-response pairs" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,360, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE (Enschede, Netherlands).

"Key holder for an optical key and system comprising the key holder for authenticating an optical key by verifying a match of challenge-response pairs" was invented by Pepijn Pinkse (Enschede, Netherlands) and Matthijs Velsink (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key holder includes a ferrule, a multimode light guide at least partly embedded inside the ferrule, an optical key which has a light scattering material, and a mechanical mount which mounts each of the ferrule, the multimode light guide, and the optical key. The multimode light guide ...