ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,973, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).
"System and method for immutable configuration of reconfigurable processing circuitry" was invented by Elad Raz (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for computing comprising: a reconfigurable computing device, comprising: a lockable circuitry comprising: reconfigurable data routing junctions, each having a configuration interface and an internal configuration; a lock controller, connected to each of the reconfigurable data routing junctions; and a hardware lock bit; wherein the lock controller is configured to deliver a persistent lock...