US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Hardware-based key generation and storage for cryptographic function" (German, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,333, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hardware-based key generation and storage for cryptographic function" was invented by Debapriya Chatterjee (Austin, Texas), Silvia Melitta Mueller (St. Ingbert, Germany), Maarten J. Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Netherlands) and Martijn Diede Berkers (Boeblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes an instruction fetch unit that fetches instructions to be executed, an architected register file including a plurality of registers for storing source and destination operands, and an execution unit for executing a key-generatin...