ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,578, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Jonetix Corp. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Processor architecture and related techniques" was invented by Paul Ying-Fung Wu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Harry Leslie Tredennick (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides techniques for permuting the performance of associative functions by circuitry of a digital device or processor in a manner that disrupts the effectiveness of side channel attacks. In specific embodiments, associative functions performed by math processing circuitry in such a device are permuted so as to mask/obfuscate a power signature and/or other externally...