US Patent Issued to Intel on April 14 for "Providing configurable security for intellectual property circuits of a processor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,785, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing configurable security for intellectual property circuits of a processor" was invented by Ratheesh Thekke Veetil (Bangalore, India) and Gauri Shankar Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, in a replica circuit associated with a first intellectual property (IP) circuit of a system on chip (SoC), a security policy; receiving, in the replica circuit, a test data register access message to identify an access to a first test data register of the first IP circuit; and preventing the access ...