US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Aug. 5 for "Method for securing logic circuits" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,250, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Method for securing logic circuits" was invented by Ronald D. Blanton (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to securing/obfuscating the design and operation of a logic circuit using standard encryption algorithms. The invention transforms the logic of the circuit to crypto logic which is capable of accepting encrypted input, producing encrypted output or a combination of accepting encrypted input and producing encrypted output."

The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2020, under Application No. 17/637,889.

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