Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tamper-proof electronic packages formed with stressed glass
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Application No.: US15831534Application Date: 2017-12-05
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Publication No.: US10257924B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: James A. Busby , Silvio Dragone , Michael J. Fisher , Michael A. Gaynes , David C. Long , Kenneth P. Rodbell , William Santiago-Fernandez , Thomas Weiss
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Agent Tihon Poltavets, Esq.; Kevin P. Radigan, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F21/00
- IPC: G06F21/00 ; H05K1/02 ; H05K1/18 ; H05K5/02 ; G06F21/87

Abstract:
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass enclosure enclosing, at least in part, at least one electronic component within a secure volume, and a tamper-respondent detector. The glass enclosure includes stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer, and the tamper-respondent detector monitors, at least in part, the stressed glass to facilitate defining the secure volume. The stressed glass fragments with an attempted intrusion event through the stressed glass, and the tamper-respondent detector detects the fragmenting of the stressed glass. In certain embodiments, the stressed glass may be a machined glass enclosure that has undergone ion-exchange processing, and the compressively-stressed surface layer of the stressed glass may be compressively-stressed to ensure that the stressed glass fragments into glass particles of fragmentation size less than 1000 μm with the intrusion event.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180098424A1 TAMPER-PROOF ELECTRONIC PACKAGES FORMED WITH STRESSED GLASS Public/Granted day:2018-04-05
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