US Patent Issued to NEC on July 21 for "Mechanism to prevent leakage through side channels in cache memory" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,285, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mechanism to prevent leakage through side channels in cache memory" was invented by Samira Briongos (Heidelberg, Germany) and Claudio Soriente (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method mitigates side channel attacks in cache memory. The method includes: loading data into a cache line of the cache memory, which includes marking the data as sensitive in metadata of the cache line based on the data being tagged as sensitive; tracking interactions with the data; and determining whether the interactions with the data are not normal based on...