US Patent Issued to NXP on Sept. 2 for "Integrated circuit and method for detecting tampering of a printed circuit board" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,265, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Integrated circuit and method for detecting tampering of a printed circuit board" was invented by Lutz Pape (Pinneberg, Germany), Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels) and Tobias Richard Erich Nink (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting tampering of a printed circuit board (PCB) using a tamper detection circuit implemented in an integrated circuit (IC) mounted on the PCB. In the method, a reference signal is generated and provided to a terminal of the IC. The terminal is connected to another circuit mounted on the PCB. A fi...