US Patent Issued to New York University, POLITECNICO di MILANO on Dec. 30 for "System, method, and computer-accessible medium for register-transfer level locking against an untrusted foundry" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,354, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to New York University (New York) and POLITECNICO di MILANO (Milan).

"System, method, and computer-accessible medium for register-transfer level locking against an untrusted foundry" was invented by Ramesh Karri (New York), Siddharth Garg (New York) and Christian Pilato (Uboldo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium for protecting at least one integrated circuit (IC) design, includes generating an abstract syntax tree ("AST") based on a hardware description language and a first register-transfer level (RTL) design. The method also includes se...