ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,597, issued on June 30, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Secure identity card using unclonable functions" was invented by Martin Kaufmann (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for securely sharing private information are described herein. A user device includes a memory device; and a processor subsystem, which when configured by instructions stored on the memory device, is operable to perform the operations comprising: receiving, at a verifier device, an indication of supported unclonable functions and a challenge value; identifying an unclonable function from the supported unclonable fu...