Yucong Tao

Title: Yucong Tao and Cyberattack Countermeasure Circuitry

Introduction

Yucong Tao is an inventor associated with La Jolla, California, and Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. His patent work addresses circuit techniques designed to counter cyberattacks.

Latest Patents

Tao is associated with 1 patent, titled “Cyberattack Countermeasure Circuits and Methods.” The patent describes countermeasure techniques in which portions of combinational logic process shared input bit groups and produce shared output bit groups. Control gates connect output groups between series-configured logic portions, and delayed clock signals activate the gates after the outputs stabilize. Some embodiments use a first and second combinational logic group operating on a clock and its inverse.

Career Highlights

Tao’s listed patent reflects work on circuit-level approaches to cybersecurity. The disclosed methods coordinate logic operations and control timing to support countermeasures against cyberattacks.

Collaborations

Tao’s listed coworker is Kunyan Liu. The patent information identifies Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC in connection with his work.

Conclusion

Yucong Tao’s patent focuses on using coordinated combinational logic and carefully timed control gates as a hardware-based approach to cyberattack countermeasures.