US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 4 for "Resistance to side-channel attacks on 5G network slices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,358, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Resistance to side-channel attacks on 5G network slices" was invented by Stefan Saroiu (Redmond, Wash.) and Paramvir Bahl (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resistance to vulnerabilities from timing-based side-channel attacks on 5G network slices that share underlying physical infrastructure and resources may be enhanced by selectively imposing time-based constraints on service provisioning and data handling to obscure data-driven time variations that occur during workload execution in a slice that can leak secret information. By ...