ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,388, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatus to hash data" was invented by Tomasz Kantecki (Ennis, Ireland), Wei Li (Shanghai), Wajdi Feghali (Boston), James Guilford (Northborough, Mass.) and Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and software for hashing data. The methods and apparatus employ novel improvements to hash algorithms, such as a SHA-2 hash algorithm to reduce computations and increase performance. In one aspect, calculation of SHA-2 message scheduling and SHA compression operations are separated under which an SHA-2 messag...