ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,366, issued on June 17, was assigned to Beijing Tenafe Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. (China).

"Device and method for data processing" was invented by Xiaojun Ding (Shanghai) and Zhikai Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "1. Each of a plurality of data processing units independently performs an end-to-end encryption operation associated with AES on a data block. The number of data processing units is selected based at least in part on a desired processing throughput rate and power consumption, where the number of data processing units and the selected key length produce a total processing throughput rate that is a multiple ...