US Patent Issued to EPIC SEMICONDUCTORS on July 1 for "System for protecting electronic devices from counterfeiting" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,490, issued on July 1, was assigned to EPIC SEMICONDUCTORS INC.

"System for protecting electronic devices from counterfeiting" was invented by Wolfgang Richter (Vancouver, Canada) and Faranak Zadeh (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for protecting electronic devices from counterfeiting and misuse. The system includes a hub unit and a smart switch. The hub unit includes a generator, a modulator and a first conductive surface. The smart switch is connected to sub-circuits and capacitively coupled to the hub unit. The smart switch includes a transmission gate, a second conductive surface, a rectifier,...