Patents by Inventor James D. Ingalls

James D. Ingalls has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9685231
    Abstract: An irreproducible and re-emergent unique structure or pattern identifier manufacturing and detection method, system, and apparatus is provided. A non-volatile floating gate charge storage device can include a block of floating gate transistors that can include a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a floating gate region, a tunnel oxide region, an oxide-nitrite-oxide region, and a control gate region. A structure altering stress effect is applied to the block of transistors to create a passage region in a random number of floating gate regions of floating gate transistors which changes charge storage or electrical characteristics of random elements of the block of transistors. The passage region alters charges on a floating gate region to escape in a different manner than pre-alteration form causing the floating gate region to lose its charge. An apparatus for recording and detecting such differences in pre and post alteration can also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Matthew Gadlage, Matthew Kay, James D. Ingalls, Adam Duncan, Austin Roach
  • Patent number: 9601201
    Abstract: An irreproducible and re-emergent unique structure or pattern identifier manufacturing and detection method, system, and apparatus are provided. A non-volatile floating gate charge storage device can include a block of floating gate transistors that can include a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a floating gate region, a tunnel oxide region, an oxide-nitrite-oxide region, and a control gate region. A structure altering stress effect is applied to the block of transistors to create a passage region in a random number of floating gate regions of floating gate transistors which changes charge storage or electrical characteristics of random elements of the block of transistors. The passage region alters charges on a floating gate region to escape in a different manner than pre-alteration form causing the floating gate region to lose its charge. An apparatus for recording and detecting such differences in pre and post alteration can also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Matthew Gadlage, Matthew Kay, James D. Ingalls, Adam Duncan, Austin Roach
  • Publication number: 20160211021
    Abstract: An irreproducible and re-emergent unique structure or pattern identifier manufacturing and detection method, system, and apparatus are provided. A non-volatile floating gate charge storage device can include a block of floating gate transistors that can include a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a floating gate region, a tunnel oxide region, an oxide-nitrite-oxide region, and a control gate region. A structure altering stress effect is applied to the block of transistors to create a passage region in a random number of floating gate regions of floating gate transistors which changes charge storage or electrical characteristics of random elements of the block of transistors. The passage region alters charges on a floating gate region to escape in a different manner than pre-alteration form causing the floating gate region to lose its charge. An apparatus for recording and detecting such differences in pre and post alteration can also be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Gadlage, Matthew Kay, James D. Ingalls, Adam Duncan, Austin Roach
  • Publication number: 20150144695
    Abstract: An irreproducible and re-emergent unique structure or pattern identifier manufacturing and detection method, system, and apparatus is provided. A non-volatile floating gate charge storage device can include a block of floating gate transistors that can include a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a floating gate region, a tunnel oxide region, an oxide-nitrite-oxide region, and a control gate region. A structure altering stress effect is applied to the block of transistors to create a passage region in a random number of floating gate regions of floating gate transistors which changes charge storage or electrical characteristics of random elements of the block of transistors. The passage region alters charges on a floating gate region to escape in a different manner than pre-alteration form causing the floating gate region to lose its charge. An apparatus for recording and detecting such differences in pre and post alteration can also be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Matthew Gadlage, Matthew Kay, James D. Ingalls, Adam Duncan, Austin Roach