US Patent Issued to NXP on Dec. 16 for "System for detecting fault injection attacks" (Austrian, Swiss, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,281, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System for detecting fault injection attacks" was invented by Jorge Ernesto Perez Chamorro (Preverenges, Switzerland), Roshan Mathew (Bengaluru, India) and Johann Hatzl (Gratkorn, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) that includes an always-on buffer and a power line is provided. The power line is routed on the IC such that a first end of the power line is at a first global supply voltage and a second end of the power line is at a second global supply voltage that is less than the first global supply voltage. The always-on buffer ...