US Patent Issued to DreamBig Semiconductor on Nov. 25 for "Computer and network interface controller offloading encryption processing to the network interface controller and using derived encryption keys" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,388, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DreamBig Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computer and network interface controller offloading encryption processing to the network interface controller and using derived encryption keys" was invented by Brian Hausauer (Austin, Texas) and Renato Recio (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encryption operations are securely offloaded to a network interface controller (NIC). Encryption keys are securely transferred from a virtual machine (VM) to the NIC and data is securely transferred from encrypted VM memory to secure buffers in the NIC. The NIC handles the encryption and decrypt...