US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 25 for "Cryptographic computing with context information for transient side channel security" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,502, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cryptographic computing with context information for transient side channel security" was invented by Abhishek Basak (Bothell, Wash.), Salmin Sultana (Hillsboro, Ore.), Santosh Ghosh (Hillsboro, Ore.), Michael D. LeMay (Hillsboro, Ore.), Karanvir S. Grewal (Hillsboro, Ore.) and David M. Durham (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a processor includes a memory hierarchy that stores encrypted data, tracking circuitry that tracks an execution context for instructions executed by the processor, and cryptographic computing circuitry t...