US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on April 22 for "Magneto-electric sensor for hardware trojan detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,055, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Magneto-electric sensor for hardware trojan detection" was invented by Ajey Jacob (Los Angeles) and Akhilesh Jaiswal (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing circuit for detecting hardware trojans in a target integrated circuit is provided. The sensing circuit includes an array of magnetic tunnel junction circuits where each magnetic tunnel junction circuit including one or more magnetic tunnel junctions. Characteristically, each magnetic tunnel junction circuit configured to provide data for and/or determine a temperature map or a ...