US Patent Issued to BASF on Aug. 11 for "Key distribution for a physical unclonable encryption system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,894, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Key distribution for a physical unclonable encryption system" was invented by Lothar Seidemann (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Holger Kai Peter Jelich (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here is a system and method to distribute symmetric encryption keys between respective nodes of a communication system. A node comprises a printing device that generates session key information or an encryption key based on changing printer control setting information and printer job information of the printing device. Operatio...