US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on May 27 for "Detecting possible security violations in an integrated circuit" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,452, issued on May 27, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Detecting possible security violations in an integrated circuit" was invented by Brian Taylor Brunn (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a clock generator to receive a reference clock signal and generate a first clock signal using the reference clock signal; a counter coupled to the clock generator to maintain a first count regarding a number of cycles of the first clock signal; and a controller coupled to the counter. The controller may be configured to detect a potential security violation when the f...