US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 23 for "Data encryption suitable for use in systems with processing-in-memory" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,319, issued on June 23, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data encryption suitable for use in systems with processing-in-memory" was invented by Nuwan Jayasena (Cupertino, Calif.), Shaizeen Dilawarhusen Aga (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vignesh Adhinarayanan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encryption circuit includes an iterative block cipher circuit. The iterative block cipher circuit has a counter input for a row index, a key input for receiving a secret key, and an output for providing an encrypted counter value in response to performing a block cipher process using the row index as a...