ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,461, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Use of electromagnetic signature to determine the type of integrated circuit" was invented by Robert Lee (Columbus, Ohio), Aditya Nechiyil (Columbus, Ohio) and Gregg Chapman (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting anomalous integrated circuits (ICs) are provided. An electrical signature for each of multiple reference ICs are created using a resonator. Each IC may be associated with a different model or manufacturer. Later, when an IC that is suspected of being anomalous is received, its signature is gener...