US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on May 12 for "Apparatus and method for decrypting an encrypted bit sequence" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,497, issued on May 12, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for decrypting an encrypted bit sequence" was invented by Thomas Poeppelmann (Ennigerloh, Germany), Peter PeBL (Munich), Daniel Heinz (Buchloe, Germany) and Julius Hermelink (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for decrypting an encrypted bit sequence comprises a test device configured to subject the bit sequence to a statistical test in view of an expected distribution of the bits in the bit sequence in order to obtain a test result. The apparatus is configured to decrypt the bit sequence should the test result i...