ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,169, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HANGZHOU XINQI ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Hangzhou, China).

"FPGA-based mask matching method and system" was invented by Jiangang Qiu (Hangzhou, China), Gang Chen (Hangzhou, China), Bin Ma (Hangzhou, China) and Yuechao Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A FPGA-based mask matching method is disclosed. A mask and a configuration keyword are split into sets of sub-masks and sets of sub-configuration keywords. Mask operation is performed to obtain sets of masked sub-configuration keywords. Operation is performed on masked sub-configuration keyword to obtain a first Hash value...