ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,774, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Information leakage mitigation associated with elliptic curve operations" was invented by Hoon Choi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided to implement information leakage mitigation associated with elliptic curve operations. In one example, a method includes generating second data based on first data. The first data is associated with a message. The second data is associated with a decoy message. The method further includes performing a first elliptic curve operation based on the first data. The metho...