US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States as represented by the Director, National Security Agency on Aug. 26 for "Universal circuit device for selective block cipher cryptographic processing with space efficient configurational agility" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,495, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Government of the United States as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Ft. George G. Meade, Md.).

"Universal circuit device for selective block cipher cryptographic processing with space efficient configurational agility" was invented by Douglas J. Shors (Towson, Md.) and Stefan G. Treatman-Clark (Edgewater, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal circuit device provides for configuration responsive to predetermined configuration data to selectively establish a plurality of disparate block cipher cryptographic processing circuits. A main key processing unit generat...