US Patent Issued to Texas Tech University System on July 29 for "Apparatus and method for protecting against side-channel attacks during device charging" (Texas, Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,905, issued on July 29, was assigned to Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas).

"Apparatus and method for protecting against side-channel attacks during device charging" was invented by Argenis Bilbao (Lubbock, Texas), Richard Matovu (Erie, Pa.), Abdul Serwadda (Lubbock, Texas) and Isaac Griswold-Steiner (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two defense mechanisms, a hardware-based and software-based solution, are provided to protect a device during charging. The defenses randomly perturb the current drawn during charging thereby masking the unique patterns of the user's activities. It is shown that the two def...