US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Jan. 13 for "Processor that mitigates side channel attacks by preventing cache memory state from being affected by a missing load operation by inhibiting or canceling a fill request of the load operation if an older load generates a need for an architectural exception" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,538, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Processor that mitigates side channel attacks by preventing cache memory state from being affected by a missing load operation by inhibiting or canceling a fill request of the load operation if an older load generates a need for an architectural exception" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco) and Srivatsan Srinivasan (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An out-of-order and speculative execution microprocessor that mitigates side channel attacks includes a cache memory and fill request generation logic that generates a reques...