US Patent Issued to NXP on July 28 for "Watch clocking to improve security of low power processing systems" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,105, issued on July 28, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Watch clocking to improve security of low power processing systems" was invented by Lennart Janis Bamberg (Hamburg, Germany) and Graham Henry MacGregor Stout (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including a peripheral configured to store security information and having a clock input receiving a gated clock, a watch clock generator configured to generate a watch clock that has a reduced duty cycle relative to a system clock, and clock control circuitry configured to select the system clock as the gated clock during normal ...