ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,543, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Securing on-chip communication using digital watermarking" was invented by Prabhat Kumar Mishra (Gainesville, Fla.), Thelijjagoda Subodha Nadeeshan Charles (Matara, Sri Lanka) and Vincent Bindschaedler (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes digital watermark detection systems and methods. In one such system, a plurality of intellectual property cores are integrated on a system-on-chip, such that the intellectual property cores comprise a first intellectual property core and a second ...