US Patent Issued to Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN), Waseda University on April 15 for "Hardware trojan detection method, hardware trojan detection device, and program for hardware trojan detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,254, issued on April 15, was assigned to Toshiba Information Systems (JAPAN) Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan) and Waseda University (Tokyo).

"Hardware trojan detection method, hardware trojan detection device, and program for hardware trojan detection" was invented by Shinichi Nagata (Kawasaki, Japan), Koji Takahashi (Kawasaki, Japan), Nozomu Togawa (Tokyo) and Masaru Oya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware trojan detection method is provided including an input and output updating step of updating input and output values of all logic cells by performing computations according to logical expressions of all logic cells included in a...