ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,744, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Drexel University (Philadelphia).
"Reconfigurable array for analog applications" was invented by Ioannis Savidis (Wallingford, Pa.) and Ziyi Chen (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this paper, a novel field-programmable analog array (FPAA) is proposed to secure the intellectual property (IP) of analog and mixed-signal circuits. A obfuscation technique is developed to efficiently mask the topology of both differential mode and single-ended mode analog circuits."
The patent was filed on April 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/305,718.
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