ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,026, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cryptography Research Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Obfuscation of data in a memory" was invented by Winthrop John Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Bryan Wang (South Lake Tahoe, Calif.), Marufa Kaniz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guilherme Ozari de Almeida (Nootdorp, Netherlands) and Scott C. Best (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to perform a memory operation addressed to a first address corresponding to a first logical unit of logical units of a memory is received. Address mask data that corresponds to the logical units is identified. Multiple transformed addresses are determined usi...