US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on March 17 for "Scalable key state for network encryption" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,737, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Scalable key state for network encryption" was invented by Keith D. Underwood (Spring, Texas), Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Michael R. Strom (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) and Eric Edward Eilertson (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing encryption of data-in-motion and/or otherwise stored data using a key server and a secure enclave of a Network Interface Card (NIC). The NIC acts as a passthrough between the client device and the shared infrastructure of the supercomput...