ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,110, issued on May 19, was assigned to SECURE-IC SAS (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

"Method and system for protecting cryptographic operations against side-channel attacks" was invented by Sofiane Takarabt (Arcueil, France) and Sylvain Guilley (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryptographic system for executing operations of a cryptographic scheme applied to encrypt a data block is provided. The cryptographic system comprises a first sharing processing unit configured to execute an arithmetic sharing function applied to the data block and providing as an output a first and a second arithmetic share component. The cryptographic system...