Patents

  • U.S. Patent 12,500,774, “Systems and Methods for Computing a Reversible Inverse Hash Circuit,” December 16, 2025, October 9, 2023 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, J.M. Henderson, E.R. Henderson, W.V. Oxford (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 12,494,906, “Systems and Methods for Implementing Structures for Physical Unclonable Functions,” December 9, 2025, August 3, 2023 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, W.V. Oxford, H. Shahoei, E. Stewart and S. Heinrich-Barna (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 12,437,219, “Systems and Methods for Efficient Photonic Heralded Quantum Computing Systems,” October 7, 2025, September 7, 2021 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, W. V. Oxford (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 12,170,736, “Systems and Methods for Hybrid Physical Unclonable Functions,” December 17, 2024, April 26, 2022 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, W. V. Oxford (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 11,989,532, “Systems and Methods for Multi-Source True Random Number Generators, Including Multi-Source Entropy Extractor Based Quantum Photonic True Random Number Generators,” May 21, 2024, March 27, 2020 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, W. V. Oxford, M. A. Thornton (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 11,868,848, “Systems and Methods for Controlled Quantum Information Processing Operation with Trans-radix Basis Components,” January 9, 2024, April 15, 2021 (filing date), M. A. Thornton (inventor).
  • U.S. Patent 11,657,313, “Systems and Methods for Preservation of Qubits,” May 23, 2023, November 24, 2020 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr., W. V. Oxford (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 11,586,737, “Detecting Malicious Software using Sensors,” February 21, 2023, June 22, 2021 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, M. A. Taylor, K. N. Smith (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 11,546,205, “Control System Anomaly Detection using Neural Network Consensus,” January 3, 2023, June 10, 2022 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, E. C. Larson, T. W. Manikas, M. A. Taylor, A. Sinha, N. Srirama (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 11,397,083, “Generating Upsampled Signal from Gyroscope Data,” July 26, 2022, December 6, 2019 (filing date), E. C. Larson, M. A. Thornton, I. Johnson, T. Siems, E. Gabrielsen (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 11,080,614, “Systems and Methods for Quantum Coherence Preservation of Qubits,” August 3, 2021, December 5, 2017 (filing date), W. V. Oxford, M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr. (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 11,042,638, “Detecting Malicious Software using Sensors,” June 22, 2021, November 14, 2020 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, M. A. Taylor, K. N. Smith (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 10,878,333, “Systems and Methods for Preservation of Qubits,” December 29, 2020, January 21, 2020 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr., W. V. Oxford (inventors).
  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 2020/197944, “Systems and Methods for Multi-Source True Random Number Generators,” October 1, 2020, March 19, 2020 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, W. V. Oxford, Micah A. Thornton (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 10,579,936, “Systems and Methods for Preservation of Qubits,” March 3, 2020, April 27, 2018 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr., W. V. Oxford (inventors).
  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) WO 2018/222311, “Systems and Methods for Quantum Coherence Preservation of Qubits,” December 6, 2018, April 27, 2018 (filing date), W. V. Oxford, M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr. (inventors).
  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) WO 2018/106702, “Systems and Methods for Quantum Coherence Preservation of Qubits,” June 14, 2018, December 5, 2017 (filing date), W. V. Oxford, M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr. (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 9,684,489, “Squaring Circuit,” June 20, 2017, August 31, 2012 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, S. Gupta (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 9,329,699, “Method for Subject Classification Using A Pattern Recognition Input Device,” May 3, 2016, October 22, 2011 (filing date), J. D. Allen, J. J. Howard, M. A. Thornton (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 8,847,625, “Single Clock Distribution Network for Multi-Phase Clock Integrated Circuits,” September 30, 2014, February 16, 2013 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, R. Menon (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 7,962,537, “Determining a Table Output of a Table Representing a Hierarchical Tree for an Integer Valued Function,” June 14, 2011, June 26, 2007 (filing date), D. W. Matula, M. A. Thornton, A. Fit-Florea, L. Li (inventors).
  • U.S. Patent 7,043,710, “Method for Early Evaluation in Micropipeline Processors,” May 9, 2006, February 10, 2004 (filing date), R. B. Reese, M. A. Thornton (inventors).