ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,600, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory assisted incline encryption/decryption" was invented by Avishay Snir (Regba, Israel), Ziv Chai (Even Shemuel, Israel), Siddhartha Chhabra (Portland, Ore.), Prashant Dewan (Portland, Ore.) and Baiju Patel (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for memory assisted inline encryption/decryption are described. An example includes an encryption data structure engine to provide a key, data, and a tweak to the encryption/decryption engine, wherein the encryption data structure engine is to: read an index value from an encryption data structu...