ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,829, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MEGACHIPS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Ippei Tanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Hajime Yoshimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit executes; processing a plurality of bits constituting confidential information one after another, each of the bits being a processing target bit; causing a calculation circuit to execute a first calculation by a first calculation circuit and a second calculation by a second calculation circuit when the processing target bit has a logic value of "1"; and causing the calcula...