ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,842, issued on June 2, was assigned to IHP GMBH-INNOVATIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROELECTRONICS / LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR INNOVATIVE MIKROELEKTRONIK (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Cryptographic hardware accelerator with dummy block addressing for protection against side channel attacks" was invented by levgen Kabin (Frankfurt, Germany), Zoya Dyka (Frankfurt, Germany), Dan Klann (Frankfurt, Germany) and Peter Langendorfer (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware accelerator is disclosed for performing a computational operation in a cryptographic application comprises one or more addressable computational blocks and a plural...