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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. 25, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas Wille, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/570 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/570 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a microcontroller circuit, comprising circuit elements arranged on a semiconductor body. In order to make a tentative forgery of such a microcontroller circuit at least more difficult, at least a number of the co-operating circuit elements is provided on the semiconductor body in an irregularly scrambled spatial configuration.