US Patent Issued to NXP on Nov. 4 for "Method for protecting a machine learning model from a side channel attack" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,071, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for protecting a machine learning model from a side channel attack" was invented by Jan Hoogerbrugge (Helmond, Netherlands) and Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Johannus Michiels (Reusel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for protecting a machine learning (ML) model from a side channel attack (SCA). A permutation is performed of weights and biases for a first layer of the ML model. The permutated weights and biases of the first layer are scaled using a scaling factor greater than zero to generate scaled and permutated weights and b...