ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,971, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Processing of cryptographic data" was invented by Bernd Meyer (Munich) and Wieland Fischer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions described herein refer to cryptographic data processing, utilizing a first masking scheme of a shared secret and a second masking scheme of the shared secret, wherein a transformation from the first masking scheme to the second masking scheme is conducted by forcing one type of calculation among at least two types of calculations."

The patent was filed on June 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/207,906.

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