ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,736, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Montgomery multiplier architecture" was invented by Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Bharat S. Pillilli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Montgomery multiplier architectures are provided. A circuit can include an initial processing element (PE) circuit configured to generate a first output including (i) a radix of a carry out and (ii) a radix of an intermediate result based on radixes of respective operands, a radix of an inverse of a modulus, and a radix of the modulus, middle PE circuits configured to generate...