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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2022
Raytheon Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Kalin Spariosu, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Anthony Serino, Cambridge, MA (US);
Raytheon Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A Cascade Spoof Proof Extra-layer Radiant Authentication (CASPER-A) system using spectrally-coded taggants is configured to transmit a multi-wavelength optical interrogation signal to interrogate a nanotag associated with a device. A multi-spectral optical receiver may be configured to receive and decode a response to the interrogation signal that may comprise a multi-spectral emission generated by the nanotag. Processing circuitry may generate data from the decoded response. To authenticate the device associated with the nanotag, the processing circuitry may generate a digital signature. The nanotag may comprise a multi-layered nanocrystal (NC) activated composite material comprising multiple layers configured to generate a multi-spectral emission from optical excitation by the optical interrogation signal. Each layer may comprise a heterogeneously dispersed volume embedded with quantum dots (Qdots). The Qdots may be configured to generate a multi-spectral emission based on an interaction of one or more wavelengths among Qdot emitters by intercoupling.