US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 22 for "Detecting and preventing frequency attacks" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,507, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting and preventing frequency attacks" was invented by Biswajit Datta (Fremont, Calif.), Rohitkumar Makhija (Milpitas, Calif.), William Ryan Weese (Portland, Ore.) and Raghu Krishnamurthy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to monitor a frequency of a clock signal sent to a device to prevent or limit undesired access to the device. In at least one embodiment, a frequency monitor circuit detects a selection signal sent to a device and monitors a frequency of a clock signal also sent to the device. In at...