ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,024, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to New York University in Abu Dhabi Corp. (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).
"System, method, computer-accessible medium, and circuit for crippling the oracle in logic locking" was invented by Ozgur Sinanoglu (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium for protecting at least one logic-locked integrated circuit (IC) design can include, for example, receiving a request(s), and swapping a correct key which is configured to unlock the logic-locked IC design(s) with an incorrect key which is configured to corrupt an output(s)...