US Patent Issued to Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS on May 20 for "Configuration authentication prior to enabling activation of a FPGA having volatile configuration-memory" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,924, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (Kongsberg, Norway).

"Configuration authentication prior to enabling activation of a FPGA having volatile configuration-memory" was invented by John Aasen (Fjerdingby, Norway) and Frode Borgersen (Fetsund, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for authenticating and enabling activation of a configuration used for controlling a product, where the configuration is implemented as safety critical logic functions in programmable logic blocks of a Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA, having a volatile configuration-memory. The configuration is loade...