ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,976, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Control circuit, electronic device, hardware security protection method, and storage medium" was invented by Wenlong Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Xutong Deng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a control circuit, an electronic device, a hardware security protection method, and a storage medium. The control circuit includes: a MCU, a short circuit element, a switch element, and an input/output unit, where a VCC pin of the MCU is connected to a power supply voltage VCC, a GPIO pin of the MCU is connected to an input end...