US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 9 for "Integrated circuit devices with capacitors for tamper detection" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,034, issued on June 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Integrated circuit devices with capacitors for tamper detection" was invented by Abhijit Kumar Das (Plano, Texas), Suman Bellary (San Jose, Calif.) and Clive Bittlestone (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device is provided. In some examples, an integrated circuit die of the device includes a first capacitor arranged such that when the integrated circuit die is coupled to a package, the package affects a capacitance of the first capacitor, a second capacitor disposed directly underneath the first capacitor, and a capacitance measur...