US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on Aug. 25 for "Hardware and deep learning based authentication through enhanced RF fingerprinting" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,050, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Hardware and deep learning based authentication through enhanced RF fingerprinting" was invented by Yasin Yilmaz (Tampa, Fla.) and Gokhan Mumcu (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting is a hardware-based authentication technique based on distinct distortions in the received signal due to the unique hardware differences of the transmitting device. Existing RF fingerprinting methods only utilize the naturally occurring hardware imperfections during fabrication, hence their authentication accuracy is limited in pra...