US Patent Issued to Synopsys on April 14 for "Blinding countermeasure to secure multiplication operations against side channel attacks" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,472, issued on April 14, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Blinding countermeasure to secure multiplication operations against side channel attacks" was invented by Nimisha Limaye (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects are directed to apparatus and methods for performing a blinded operation. The method generally includes: obtaining a first operand a second operand for a multiplication operation; performing, via one or more processors, one or more shift operations or a bit-flip operation on the first operand to generate a first blinded operand; and performing the multiplication operation b...