US Patent Issued to L3Harris Global Communications on March 4 for "System and method for obfuscation of sequential logic through encryption" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,661, issued on March 4, was assigned to L3Harris Global Communications Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"System and method for obfuscation of sequential logic through encryption" was invented by Michael T. Kurdziel (Rochester, N.Y.), Steven M. Farris (Webster, N.Y.), Marcin Lukowiak (Rochester, N.Y.) and Stanislaw Radziszowski (West Henrietta, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for protecting intellectual property of a circuit via obfuscation of logic through encryption. The methods comprise: analyzing a combinational circuit (CC) to identify first logic gates that perform first function(s) which is(are) implementable by ...