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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2020
Graf Research Corporation, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Jonathan Peter Graf, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Ali Asgar Ali Akbar Sohanghpurwala, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Scott Jeffery Harper, Blacksburg, VA (US);
GRAF RESEARCH CORPORATION, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, method, and system assess the trustworthiness of a design representation while maintaining its confidentiality and thwarting attempts at unauthorized access, misappropriation, and reverse engineering of confidential proprietary aspects of the design representation and/or its bit stream. A utility/tool is provided for trust assessment and verification of designs and/or bit streams. The utility/tool may be instantiated on a semiconductor device or implemented as a utility executable on a mobile computing device or other information processing system, apparatus, or network.