ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,438, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nagravision Sarl (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Method for securely processing digital information in a secure element" was invented by Karine Villegas (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Roan Hautier (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method if provided for securely processing digital information performed by a secure element having a secure processor. The method includes loading the digital information from an external memory into the secure element; segmenting the digital information into words of digital information (Wij,k), generating error-dete...