US Patent Issued to NXP on Dec. 16 for "Circuit and method for protecting an application against a side channel attack" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,226, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Circuit and method for protecting an application against a side channel attack" was invented by Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for protecting a device against a side channel attack. In the method a portion of code in a program stored in read only memory (ROM) of an integrated circuit is determined to be vulnerable to a side channel attack. A patch memory is provided, separate from the ROM, for storing one or more instructions configured to transfer execution of the portion of code to a side channel protection f...