US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for storing keys" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,732, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for storing keys" was invented by Norman Vernon Douglas Stewart (Markham, Canada), Mihir Shaileshbhai Doctor (Santa Clara, Calif.), Omar Fakhri Ahmed (Markham, Canada), Hemaprabhu Jayanna (Santa Clara, Calif.) and John Traver (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for storing keys in a key storage block includes processing a key request. A first key is allocated based upon the key request. The first key is stored in the key storage block, wherei...