ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,732, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pantherun Technologies Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India).

"Advanced Encryption Standard with frequent S-box update and fusion function application" was invented by Srinivas Lakshman Sekhar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for implementing Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with frequent S-box update and fusion function application is proposed. Initially, a first fusion function input is obtained based on an XOR of an input plaintext and a first cryptographic key. Thereafter, a set of encryption rounds is executed for generating a state output. This includes app...