ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,369, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University (Flgstaff, Azerbaijan).

"Salted hashing method for response-based cryptography" was invented by Michael Gowanlock (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Bertrand F. Cambou (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Kaitlyn Lee (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Christopher R. Philabaum (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cryptographic key generation at a client and server are disclosed. The client has an array of PUF devices, and the server has an image that PUF. The server sends the client addresses of PUF devices to be measured, and retrieves p...