US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on July 7 for "Apparatus for cryptographic operations on information and associated methods" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,584, issued on July 7, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Apparatus for cryptographic operations on information and associated methods" was invented by Steven Cooreman (Nittedal, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an encryption circuit. The encryption circuit includes a block function circuit to generate a plurality of blocks of output data. A first part of a keystream is generated from a block of output data having an initial sequence number. A second part of the keystream is generated from blocks of output having sequence numbers other than the initial sequence number."

The patent w...