US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Jan. 28 for "Method for modifying or verifying a circuit by inserting a saboteur circuit" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,427, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Method for modifying or verifying a circuit by inserting a saboteur circuit" was invented by Jason Hamlet (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Tom Mannos (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for circuit modification for fault mitigation including: obtaining a netlist defining a circuit; inserting at least one saboteur circuit into a first net of the netlist; configuring an FPGA to implement the first net and the at least one saboteur circuit; activating a first of the at least one saboteur circuits; determi...