US Patent Issued to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees on May 20 for "Method and apparatus for runtime detection of bus probing/tampering in computer systems" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,944, issued on May 20, was assigned to University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees (Kingston, R.I.).

"Method and apparatus for runtime detection of bus probing/tampering in computer systems" was invented by Ken Qing Yang (Saunderstown, R.I.), Tao Wei (West Kingston, R.I.) and Zhenyu Xu (Kingston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for detection of probing attacks or other tampering on any bus, including on chip and off chip buses. The method can be performed during runtime, concurrently with normal data transfer on the bus, without stopping the normal data transfer, and without imposing any latency to commun...