ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,600, issued on March 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generation of random security circuit patterns for in-situ fabrication of tamper-respondent sensors" was invented by Hongqing Zhang (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Arthur J. Higby (Cottekill, N.Y.), David J. Lewison (LaGrangeville, N.Y.), James Busby (New Paltz, N.Y.), Jay A. Bunt (Esopus, N.Y.), Levi Campbell (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Philipp K. Buchling Rego (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Shidong Li (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Sylvain Tetreault (Granby, Canada) and Yu Luo (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In-situ fabrication of t...