US Patent Issued to Altera on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for communicating encrypted time-related data" (Malaysian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,223, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for communicating encrypted time-related data" was invented by Choon Yip Soo (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Su Wei Lim (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Si Xing Saw (Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia) and Markos Papadonikolakis (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes encryption circuitry to encrypt a data packet and scheduler circuitry to receive the encrypted data packet from the encryption circuitry. The scheduler circuitry monitors a duration of time associated with egress of the encrypted data packet, holds the encrypted dat...