US Patent Issued to CIRRUS LOGIC on Aug. 11 for "Clock integrity verification and protection in an integrated circuit (IC)" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,337, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CIRRUS LOGIC INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Clock integrity verification and protection in an integrated circuit (IC)" was invented by Amar Vellanki (Cedar Park, Texas), Brent W. Wilson (Austin, Texas), Andrew D. Bettilyon (Kyle, Texas), Wai-Shun Shum (Austin, Texas), Arun R. Ramani (Austin, Texas) and Nathan D. P. Buchanan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC), including multiple functional units for performing operations of the integrated circuit, provides security of a clock configuration at least during security operations. The IC includes a clock management subsy...