US Patent Issued to Lattice Semiconductor on Oct. 14 for "Cryptographic hardware sharing systems and methods" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,132, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Cryptographic hardware sharing systems and methods" was invented by Tim Vogt (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Everhard (San Jose, Calif.) and Narasimhakumar Mangipudi (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided to implement cryptographic hardware sharing systems and methods. In one example, a programmable logic device (PLD) includes a configuration engine configured to provide configuration data for processing using a first set of security functions. The PLD further includes a PLD fabric including an array of memory cell...