US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 16 for "Detection of laser-based security attacks" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,630, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Detection of laser-based security attacks" was invented by Alan Lewis (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhengming Fu (Austin, Texas), Nan Chen (San Diego), Adam Cezary Polak (San Diego), Laura Fuentes (San Diego), Gregory Bullard (La Mesa, Calif.) and Mark Todorovich (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include integrated approaches to detecting attempts to breach system-level or chip-level security using photo-generated currents induced by lasers or other radiation sources. Various embodiments integrate photo-detection circuits with a secure processor or...