US Patent Issued to RENESAS ELECTRONICS on Jan. 27 for "Semiconductor device and clock control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,278, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device and clock control method" was invented by Takahiro Minaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device provides a method to avoid side-channel attacks. While the logic circuit A for performing the encryption process does not operate, by operating the logic circuit B (performing processing other than the encryption) having a circuit scale of approximately the same as the logic circuit A, the change in the consumption current interlocked with the operation state of the logic circuit A is shielded, it is possible to make it d...