US Patent Issued to THALES DIS FRANCE on Dec. 16 for "Method to protect program in integrated circuit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,186, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Method to protect program in integrated circuit" was invented by David Vigilant (Malakoff, France), Jean-Roch Coulon (Le Tholonet, France) and Jerome Vasseur (Venelles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for protecting a program in an integrated circuit product. The method includes creating one or more opcode blocs to respectively replace one or more original opcodes of said program, said opcode bloc comprising a number of fictional opcodes and the corresponding original opcode, said fictional opcodes being to be executed without ...