US Patent Issued to Nordic Semiconductor ASA on Jan. 13 for "Physical security protection for integrated circuits" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,580, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Physical security protection for integrated circuits" was invented by Frode Pedersen (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit comprising a detection circuit portion for detecting an electromagnetic pulse attack on the integrated circuit is provided. The detection circuit portion comprises a shadow flip-flop comprising a clock input and a clock net connected to said clock input. The detection circuit portion also comprises a clock gate connected to the clock net that is controlled by an enable signal to selectively be ...