ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,221, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.) and Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Programmable application-specific array for protecting confidentiality and integrity of hardware IPS" was invented by Swarup Bhunia (Gainesville, Fla.), Aritra Dasgupta (Gainesville, Fla.), Pravin Gaikwad (Gainesville, Fla.), Md Moshiur Rahman (Gainesville, Fla.), Aritra Bhattacharyay (Gainesville, Fla.), Nij Dorairaj (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David Kehlet (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are directed to protecting hardware IP, particularly of ASIC de...