ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,610, issued on July 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Fault-to-time converter sensor for low-overhead fault injection attack mitigation" was invented by Mark Tehranipoor (Gainesville, Fla.), Farimah Farahmandi (Gainesville, Fla.), Kimia Zamiri Azar (Gainesville, Fla.) and Md Rafid Muttaki (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide fault injection attack mitigation for an integrated circuit. In one example, an embodiment provides for providing a sampling clock signal to both high voltage threshold (HVT) cells and low volta...