US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on April 14 for "Authentication of dendritic structures" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,944, issued on April 14, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Authentication of dendritic structures" was invented by Michael N. Kozicki (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assessing the authenticity of a dendrite on a substrate includes illuminating the dendrite and the substrate with radiation, obtaining a first image of the dendrite on the substrate at a first polarization angle, obtaining a second image of the dendrite on the substrate at a second polarization angle, and assessing a difference in intensity of a multiplicity of corresponding pixels of the candida...