US Patent Issued to Intel on March 25 for "Technologies for real-time updating of encryption keys" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,936, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for real-time updating of encryption keys" was invented by Vinit Mathew Abraham (Hillsboro, Ore.), Raghunandan Makaram (Northborough, Mass.), Kirk S. Yap (Westborough, Mass.), Siva Prasad Gadey (Portland, Ore.) and Tanmoy Kar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for real-time updating of encryption keys are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, an encrypted link is established between a local and remote processor over a point-to-point interconnect. The encrypted link is operated for some time until the encryption key...