Atmel (Microchip) Assigned Patent

Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA, (acquired by Microchip Technology, Inc.), has been assigned a patent (10,073,661) developed by Pedersen, Frode Milch, Trondheim, Norway, Fullerton, Ian, Los Gatos, CA, Martinez, Joseph, Fremont, CA, and Olsson, Martin, Trondheim, Norway, for “security extensions for non-volatile memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The disclosed embodiments provide security extensions for memory, (e.g., non-volatile memory) by means of address and data scrambling and differential data storage to minimize exposure to side channel attacks and obfuscate the stored data. The scrambling function maximizes reverse engineering costs when recovering sequences of secret keys.”

The patent application was filed on December 20, 2016 (15/385,810).