ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,941, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Creating, using, and managing protected cryptography keys" was invented by Jason W. Brandt (Austin, Texas), Steven L. Grobman (Flower Mound, Texas) and Vedvyas Shanbhogue (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and apparatus embodiments for creating, using, and managing protected cryptography keys are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a decoder, an execution unit, and a cache. The decoder is to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, the single instruction having a first source operand to specify...