US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Storage inline encryption circuit" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,550, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Storage inline encryption circuit" was invented by William A. Moyes (Austin, Texas), Carlos Javier Moreira (Markham, Canada), Kathirkamanathan Nadarajah (Markham, Canada) and Keith Graham Shaw (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes one or more storage encryption circuits (SIECs) interconnected with one or more input/output (I/O) devices and a system memory. Each SIEC is configured to encrypt and decrypt data as the data passes between the I/O devices and the sys...