US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Aug. 25 for "Automatic key rolling for link encryption" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,668, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic key rolling for link encryption" was invented by Donald Preston Matthews Jr. (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic key rolling for link encryption is described. In accordance with the described techniques, data packets are encrypted at a first endpoint of a communication link using a first data encryption key. The encrypted data packets are communicated over the communication link to a second endpoint. A key rolling event that is known by both the first endpoint and the second endpoint is detected at the first end...