ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,089, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Trustonic Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Trusted Execution Environment side-channel protection method" was invented by Lukas Hanel (Valbonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting a cryptographic operation on a device from a side-channel attack, the device comprising a processor operable to execute a rich execution environment (REE) and a trusted execution environment (TEE), the method comprising: receiving, at the TEE, a request to perform a cryptographic operation, wherein the cryptographic operation is divisible into a plurality of chunks; issuing, by the TEE, a comm...