ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,481, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUANTUM PROPERTIES TECHNOLOGY LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Multimodal memory integrated circuit with native-speed encrypted data processing for use in unbreakable cryptography" was invented by Daniel M. Esbensen (Hayward, Calif.) and Stephen M. Omohundro (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of native-speed encrypted data processing for use in cryptography includes the following steps: receiving, from a memory on a chip substrate of a multimodal integrated circuit (IC) chip, a first set of data encrypted by a first OTP key; receiving, from the memory, at least a second set of...