US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on July 7 for "Hardware redaction via designer-directed fine-grained embedded field programmable gate array insertion" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,626, issued on July 7, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Hardware redaction via designer-directed fine-grained embedded field programmable gate array insertion" was invented by Kenneth W. Mai (Pittsburgh), Prashanth Mohan (Pittsburgh), Ahmet Atli (Pittsburgh) and Ogun Onur Kibar (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method for using reconfigurable logic for hardware redaction in which the critical IP is obfuscated by replacing it with an eFPGA, thereby entirely concealing the logic and interconnects from reverse engineers and untrusted fabrication facilities. The non-critic...