ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,694, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Side channel resistant memory operations" was invented by Miguel Cristian Young de la Sota (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for privacy preserving digital component provider. In some implementations, a method includes accessing a buffer including one or more sets of bits; generating a random sequence of values; generating, from the random sequence of values, a sequence of indices representing an order in which to access particular sets of bits of the...