ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,614, issued on July 28, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Processor with an elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm and a data processing method thereof" was invented by Yanting Li (Beijing), Zhenhua Huang (Beijing), Yingbing Guan (Shanghai), Yun Shen (Beijing), Lei Yi (Xi'an City, China) and Shuang Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor with an elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm and a data processing method thereof are shown. Three elliptic curve cryptographic instructions are proposed in the instruction set architecture for key exchange between an initiator and a responder. T...