US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 28 for "Apparatus and method to detect power supply security attack and risk mitigation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,620, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method to detect power supply security attack and risk mitigation" was invented by Amit Kumar Srivastava (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hardware based unsupervised based machine-learning (ML) approach to identify a security threat to the processor (e.g., caused by probing of a power supply rail). An apparatus is provided which includes an on-die power supply droop detector as a feature extractor. The droop detector detects a droop in the power supply caused by a probe physically coupling to the power supply rail. The droop detect...