Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to cryptographic systems. The ‘062 patent has been asserted against MARA Holdings, Core Scientific, and Foundry Digital LLC.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
US 7020281 - Timing Attack Resistant Cryptographic System
Winner - Umesh Kumar
Winning Submissions: "Speeding up the computations on an elliptic curve using addition-subtraction chains" by François Morain and Jorge Olivos (1990); “Minimum weight modified signed-digit representations and fast exponentiation,” by Jedwab, J. & Mitchell, C.J. (1989); “Speeding up Elliptic Cryptosystems by Using a Signed Binary Window Method" by Kenji Koyama and Yukio Tsuruoka (1993)
US 8666062 - Performing Finite Field Calculations
Winners - Umesh Kumar & Ketan Sachdeva
Winning Submissions: US 7069287; “Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cards Without Coprocessors,” Adam D. Woodbury, Daniel V. Bailey, and Christof Paar (2000)