MUMBAI, India, Aug. 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641093084 A) filed by Velammal Engineering College on July 31, 2026, for Post-Quantum Cryptography Secure Clock Counter Module For Coordinated Robotic Swarms With Resistance.
Inventors include Dr. Murugeshwari B; Aarthi K C; Chitra R; and Sruthi Nath C.
The application for the patent was published on August 14, 2026, under issue no. 33/2026.
Abstract: The invention relates to a Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Secure Clock Counter Module designed to provide resilient and tamper-proof temporal synchronization to robotic swarms operating in hostile and/or precision-critical environments. Modem swarm-robotic systems are highly reliant on accurate distributed timing to perform cooperative behaviors including formation control, multi-agent path planning, synchronized sensing, distributed computation, collision avoidance, and mission- level control. However, conventional clock-synchronization schemes are susceptible to time manipulation, timing spoofing, counter-reset, clock-drift exploitation, and other adversarial maneuvers especially when potential adversaries are quantum-enabled and able to break classical cryptography.This invention describes a hardware- embedded secure clock counter that incorporates lattice-based post-quantum cryptographic primitive constructions, authenticated time-stamping, tamper-responsive counter-advanced logic, and a secure, immutable monotonic-time ledger. The module guarantees all robots in a swarm an accessible and immutable temporal state, devoid of rollback, acceleration, or false synchronization abuses. The module incorporates secure inter-robot time-exchange, quantum-resilient challenge-response authenticated protocols, and decentralized anomaly-detection to identify and isolate rogue nodes.The system guarantees solid, cryptographically protected timing integrity in and around environments that are GPS-denied, communications jammed, or sensor spoofed. The system achieves a high level of reliability and mission assurance in industrial automation, defense swarms, environment monitoring robotic swarms, and other autonomous distributed systems that require uncompromised timing resilience.
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