US Patent Issued to Rambus on May 19 for "Data-gating based masking" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,610, issued on May 19, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data-gating based masking" was invented by Michael Hutter (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bundled-data protocol can be used to synchronize the data flow in the mask shares. A random synchronization token is input and "bundled" with the combinatorial logic of a share. An additional output from the combinatorial logic is also provided such that when the original combinational output is exclusive OR'd (XOR'd) with the additional output yields the random synchronization token. When the XOR of the original and additional outputs, and the input synchronization ...