US Patent Issued to Siemens on April 8 for "Method and device for authenticating an FPGA configuration" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,512, issued on April 8, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and device for authenticating an FPGA configuration" was invented by Fabrizio De Santis (Munich) and Markus Dichtl (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and a device for authenticating an FPGA configuration. The method includes at least partly reading the configuration of a FPGA by the FPGA itself and calculating a first checksum using the read configuration. The method further includes providing an authentication response which confirms that the FPGA configuration is authentic when the first checksum matches a specified...