ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,884, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Obfuscating data at-transit" was invented by Michael Weiner (Ness-Ziona, Israel), Oded Golombek (Even Yehuda, Ill.) and Harel Adani (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obfuscating data at-transit can include receiving, at a first component on a chip, an instruction request for communicating a first data to a second component on the chip. The first component can be a processor and the second component can be an associated memory. The method can further include, determining a sequence of data arranged to obfuscate the first data while...