ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,743, issued on May 27, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Data processing device and method for the cryptographic processing of data" was invented by Florian Mendel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one example embodiment, a data processing device is described, having a processing circuit which processes a data block cryptographically iteratively, starting from the received version of the data block, via a plurality of processed versions of the data block through to an output version of the data block in a plurality of successive rounds by means of an S-box. The S-box has a plurality of ...