ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,916, issued on April 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pregeneration of one-time pads for end-to-end encryption" was invented by SeyedMohammad SeyedzadehDelcheh (Bellevue, Wash.), Sergey Blagodurov (Bellevue, Wash.) and Donald Matthews Jr. (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system implementing end-to-end encryption includes a number of nodes each connected to a network and including a respective processor. Further, at least one node connected to the network includes a one-time pad (OTP) pregeneration circuitry configured to select an OTP pregeneration operating mode...