US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Flexible cryptographic architecture in a network device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,859, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Flexible cryptographic architecture in a network device" was invented by Yuval Shicht (Tel Aviv, Israel), Miriam Menes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ariel Shahar (Jerusalem), Uria Basher (Nehusha, Israel) and Boris Pismenny (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes a hardware pipeline to process a network packet to be encrypted. A portion of the hardware pipeline retrieves information from the network packet and generates a command based on the information. A block cipher circuit is coupled inline within the hardware pipeline. The...