ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,147, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit (IC) and electronic apparatus" was invented by Benny Shatit (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan), Ming-Che Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tsung-Hsueh Li (Yunlin County, Taiwan), Uri Trichter (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan) and Dan Morav (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an IC is provided. The IC includes a memory, a controller, an intrusion detector and a memory clear circuit. The memory is configured to store sensitive data. The controller is configured to access the memory. The intrusion...