ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,454, issued on June 23, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Semiconductor device having electromagnetic interference (EMI) sensors and a sensing circuit to detect EMI attacks" was invented by Shilpa Gupta (Rohini, India), Hubert Martin Bode (Haar, Germany) and Rishi Bhooshan (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a secured circuit, an electromagnetic interference (EMI) sensor over a surface of the secured circuit, and a sensing circuit. The EMI sensor is configured to receive a reference voltage and the EMI sensor includes at least one of electric (E) field sensor or a magnetic (H...