ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,838, issued on March 3, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Scalable key table" was invented by Rui Pimenta (Portishead, Great Britain) and Abbas Saadat (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing storage of one or more keys received by a chip, and more particularly to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing storage of one or more keys in a storage of a first device that is external to the chip. An integrated circuit can include a circuit configured to receive at least one of a key or a request to retrieve the key and at ...