US Patent Issued to Nordic Semiconductor ASA on June 23 for "Security in integrated circuits" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,272, issued on June 23, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Security in integrated circuits" was invented by Frode Pedersen (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit has multiple clock domains. At least one of the clock domains is a secure domain including a protection clock portion. The protection clock portion is arranged to produce a clock signal having a clock period which varies randomly over at least some cycles of operation. The clock signal is arranged to clock one or more components in the secure domain."

The patent was filed on May 24, 2022, under Application No. 18/...