ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,833, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Umbralogic Technologies LLC (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for obfuscating a circuit design" was invented by Bertrand Irissou (San Jose, Calif.), John M. Hughes (Hartford, Conn.), Lucio Lanza (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mohamed K. Kassem (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael S. Wishart (Hillsborough, Calif.), Rajeev Srivastava (Austin, Texas), Risto Bell (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Timothy Edwards (Poolesville, Md.), Sherif Eid (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Greg P. Shaurette (Tahoe City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for obfuscating a circuit design are described. One of the metho...