US Patent Issued to ANSYS on Jan. 27 for "Security-aware design with placement for power/emag assessment" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,294, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Security-aware design with placement for power/emag assessment" was invented by Lang Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), Kayhan Kucukcakar (Los Altos, Calif.), Jimin Wen (Pleasanton, Calif.), Norman Chang (Fremont, Calif.), Preeti Gupta (San Jose, Calif.) and Hua Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for security vulnerability assessment of security-sensitive circuit designs are described. A placement of security-sensitive components of a design may be based on constraints related to how far apart a relevant set of security-sensitive components are a...