US Patent Issued to NXP on Dec. 16 for "Flexible hardware accelerators for masking conversions with a power of two modulus" (Austrian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,277, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Flexible hardware accelerators for masking conversions with a power of two modulus" was invented by Olivier Bronchain (Brussels) and Tobias Schneider (Styria, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware converter configured to convert d arithmetic shares of x to d Boolean shares of x. The hardware converter has a plurality of addition layers in a tree structure. Each layer has a plurality of secure bit adders."

The patent was filed on April 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/298,100.

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