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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2015
Sensors Unlimited, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
John T. Foster, Jersey City, NJ (US);
John Tagle, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Dmitry Zhilinsky, Princeton, NJ (US);
Michael A. Liland, Princeton, NJ (US);
Laszlo Kovacs, Middlesex, NJ (US);
Leonardo C. Gonzales, West Chester, PA (US);
Sensors Unlimited, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A multi-tiered approach to combating reverse engineering of electronics is disclosed herein. The encapsulant utilized with the optical sensor may be selected based on being substantially being opaque to X-ray inspection. In this way, visible public inspection to gain competitive intelligence may be reduced and operation of the electronics may remain unaffected. Additionally, a thin filament of wire embedded just below the surface of the encapsulant could be used as an electronic tripwire in response to being severed and/or dissolved by the reverse engineering strong solvents and acids.