US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Aug. 4 for "Wrapper circuit for providing replay and integrity protection using an encryption algorithm" (American, Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,014, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wrapper circuit for providing replay and integrity protection using an encryption algorithm" was invented by Hui Luo (Marlboro, N.J.), Rakesh Taori (McKinney, Texas), Florian Mendel (Munich) and Martin Schlaeffer (Zell am See, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authenticated encryption algorithms may function in both a data encryption and authentication operational mode as well as an authentication only operational mode. A first circuit may generate encrypted data and generate a first authentication tag. The first circuit may output for transmi...