ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,758, issued on March 17, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Programmable secure management device and control method for performing key forwarding between secure devices" was invented by Ya-Han Chiang (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable secure management device and a control method for performing key forwarding between secure devices are provided. The programmable secure management device includes a key generating device, a key accepting device and a forwarding controller circuit, wherein the forwarding controller circuit is electrically coupled to the key generating device and...