US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Hardware-based Galois multiplication" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,155, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hardware-based Galois multiplication" was invented by Silvia Melitta Mueller (St. Ingbert, Germany), Debapriya Chatterjee (Austin, Texas), Maarten J. Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany) 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 Galois multiply instruction. The execution unit...