Patents by Inventor Maxime LECOMTE

Maxime LECOMTE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10397251
    Abstract: A system for securing an electronic circuit including: plural regions, activity of each of which may be controlled; plural sensors integrated into the electronic circuit, each sensor being sensitive to variations in manufacturing process and to provide a measurement representative of a local activity of the electronic circuit; a processing unit including an integrity verification module configured to: determine, based on the measurements provided by the sensors, and for each of the regions, a partition of the sensors between sensors affected and sensors not affected by an activation of the region; compare each of the partitions with a model partition to detect possible presence of a hardware Trojan horse liable to infect the electronic circuit. The system can carry out an authentication of the electronic circuit by its intrinsic physical characteristics by response to a challenge or by generation of a key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Maxime Lecomte, Jacques Fournier, Philippe Maurine
  • Publication number: 20170310688
    Abstract: A system for securing an electronic circuit including: plural regions, activity of each of which may be controlled; plural sensors integrated into the electronic circuit, each sensor being sensitive to variations in manufacturing process and to provide a measurement representative of a local activity of the electronic circuit; a processing unit including an integrity verification module configured to: determine, based on the measurements provided by the sensors, and for each of the regions, a partition of the sensors between sensors affected and sensors not affected by an activation of the region; compare each of the partitions with a model partition to detect possible presence of a hardware Trojan horse liable to infect the electronic circuit. The system can carry out an authentication of the electronic circuit by its intrinsic physical characteristics by response to a challenge or by generation of a key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Maxime LECOMTE, Jacques FOURNIER, Philippe MAURINE