ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,070, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Software assisted acceleration in cryptographic queue processing" was invented by Shijie Che (Markham, Canada) and Wentao Xu (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficiently processing security service requests are described. In various implementations, an integrated circuit includes at least one or more processors with a dedicated security processor and on-chip memory that has a higher security level than off-chip memory. During the processing of security service requests, the security processor receives multiple command...