ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,021, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cycuity Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using information flow for security aware design and analysis" was invented by Jason K. Oberg (Redwood City, Calif.), Alric Althoff (San Jose, Calif.) and Andreas Kuehlmann (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing information flow analysis on hardware designs to identify vulnerabilities. One of the methods includes generating input signals and feeding the generated input signals into the modified hardware design to generate a plurality of inf...