US Patent Issued to Synopsys on July 14 for "Identifying circuit elements and/or ports for threat analysis and risk assessment" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,147, issued on July 14, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Identifying circuit elements and/or ports for threat analysis and risk assessment" was invented by Shivakumar Shankar Chonnad (San Jose, Calif.), Fadi Maamari (San Jose, Calif.) and Chandan Kumar (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first set of ports and/or circuit elements in a circuit design may be received, where the first set of ports and/or circuit elements is expected to cause damage if the first set of ports and/or circuit elements is compromised. A second set of ports and/or circuit elements in the circuit design may be determined by perfor...