ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,049, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amida Technology Solutions Inc. (Washington).

"Method and system for insertion of cybersecurity and hardware assurance instruments within integrated circuits and electronic systems using multi-stage hardware marking" was invented by Seema Naswa (Austin, Texas), Alfred Larry Crouch (Cedar Park, Texas), Peter Lawrence Levin (Silber Springs, Md.) and Karpagam Karthikeyan (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware trojan security system may perform a computer implemented method to secure an electronic facility in relation to a hardware trojan, by performing a trojan vulnerability an...