ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,468, issued on May 12, was assigned to L3Harris Global Communications Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for providing substitution boxes" was invented by Michael Kurdziel (Rochester, N.Y.), Steven Farris (Webster, N.Y.), Alan Kaminsky (Rochester, N.Y.), Peter Bajorski (Fairport, N.Y.), Payton Burak (Jamison, Pa.), Marcin Lukowiak (Rochester, N.Y.) and Stanislaw Radziszowski (West Henrietta, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing an S-box. The methods comprise: implementing a plurality of layers on a field programmable gate array, wherein each of the layers comprises a substitution sublayer and...