US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for defending against side channel attacks to speculative execution of processor pipeline instructions" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,713, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for defending against side channel attacks to speculative execution of processor pipeline instructions" was invented by Hithesh Hassan Lepaksha (Hyderabad, India), Darshan Kumar Nandanwar (Bangalore, India), Kartik Gunvantbhai Desai (Savarkundla, India) and Sagar Bamashetti (Chadchan, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes executing a first pointer authentication instruction, including a first pointer authentication code, on a pointer in a speculative path of a pipeline. The method also includes determining whether the first pointe...