ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,536, issued on May 12, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Circuit to protect against multi-rail voltage glitching attacks" was invented by Jiale Liang (San Jose, Calif.), Prashant Singh (Apison, Tenn.), Nishit Harshad Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Kaushik Krishna Raghuraman (Campbell, Calif.), Suhas Satheesh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ting Lu (Austin, Texas), Roman Surgutchik (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Tezaswi Raja (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a bandgap circuit configured to generate multiple reference voltages. A first voltage glitching detection circuit utili...