ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,409, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Multi-layered framework for security of integrated circuits" was invented by Swarup Bhunia (Gainesville, Fla.), Aritra Dasgupta (Gainesville, Fla.), Reiner Dizon (Gainesville, Fla.), Aritra Bhattacharyay (Gainesville, Fla.) and Rasheed Almawzan (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-layered framework for security of integrated circuits. In one example, an embodiment provides for removing one or more routing tables in a Register Transfer Level (RTL) source...