US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Integrated circuit for prevention of circuit design theft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,946, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Integrated circuit for prevention of circuit design theft" was invented by Thomas Kuenemund (Munich), Markus Gruetzner (Munich) and Peter Egger (Baldham, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments describe an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes at least seven planar field effect transistors provided in a common substrate next to one another with a maximum feature size in accordance with a technology node of a maximum of 65 nm. Each field effect transistor of the at least seven planar field effect transistors include...