US Patent Issued to Nuvoton Technology on April 7 for "Self-synchronous side-channel attack countermeasure" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,796, issued on April 7, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Self-synchronous side-channel attack countermeasure" was invented by Ziv Hershman (Givat Shmuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Attack Resilient Computation Circuit (ARCC) in an integrated circuit (IC) includes a first computation stage, a second computation stage, and security circuitry. The first computation stage is configured to process one or more signals so as to produce one or more outputs, the first computation stage having multiple signal propagation paths. The second computation stage is configured to receive and process the outpu...