US Patent Issued to Allegro MicroSystems on March 24 for "Counterfeit integrated circuit detector based on blockchain technology" (Argentinean, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,385, issued on March 24, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Counterfeit integrated circuit detector based on blockchain technology" was invented by Pablo Jesus Gardella (Heidelberg, Germany) and Eduardo Mariani (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method provide a visible or audible indication of whether an integrated circuit (IC) is authentic using cryptographic hashes stored on a blockchain. The IC includes a cryptographic mining circuit that creates blocks for storage in the blockchain. Each such block includes the value of a cryptographic hash function...