US Patent Issued to eMemory Technology on April 21 for "Fault-injection protection circuit for protecting against laser fault injection" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,508, issued on April 21, was assigned to eMemory Technology Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Fault-injection protection circuit for protecting against laser fault injection" was invented by Dung Le Tan Hoang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault-injection protection circuit includes a circuit under protection and a detection circuit. The detection circuit includes a detection cell having unequal pull-up capability and pull-down capability, and is arranged at a distance less than a laser spot diameter from the circuit under protection. The detection circuit is used to generate an alarm signal upon detecting a laser ...