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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2021
Applicants:
New York University, New York, NY (US);
Politecnico Di Milano, Milan, IT;
Inventors:
Assignees:
New York University, New York, NY (US);
POLITECNICO di MILANO, Milan, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/14 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/14 (2013.01); G06F 21/1066 (2023.08);
Abstract
Exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium for protecting at least one integrated circuit (IC) design, includes generating an abstract syntax tree ('AST') based on a hardware description language and a first register-transfer level (RTL) design. The method also includes selecting semantic elements in the AST to lock and locking the selected semantic elements. Additionally, the method includes a procedure for generating a second RTL design.