US Patent Issued to NCIPHER SECURITY on Feb. 17 for "Device and a method for performing a cryptographic algorithm" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,869, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NCIPHER SECURITY Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Device and a method for performing a cryptographic algorithm" was invented by Richard John Kettlewell (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method comprising: obtaining first data, comprising a representation of computer program code that embodies a cryptographic algorithm; obtaining second data; receiving a request for a first mechanism to be performed, the request comprising information identifying the first mechanism, and information identifying the first data as corresponding to a program and the se...