ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,796, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cryptographic system real-time test vector leakage assessment" was invented by Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Bharat S. Pillilli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Test inputs are iteratively provided to a target asymmetric cryptographic system. Trace information resulting from operation of the cryptographic system is received corresponding to processing each test input. For each test input, test vector leakage assessment (TVLA) is performed on the trace information for the test input, t-values are stored, and ...