ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,402, issued on May 27, was assigned to Trustonic Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Secure user interface side-channel attack protection" was invented by Simon Butler (York, Great Britain), Jesus Jose Gianzo Villaverde (Cambridge, Great Britain), John Michael Dent (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Baptiste Gourdin (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a secure user interface on a computing device comprising: receiving, from a user application, a request to utilise a secure user interface on the computing device; obtaining, by a first countermeasure module, first information associated with a s...