US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Jan. 27 for "Secret-sharing encoding and decoding using exclusive or operations" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,672, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Secret-sharing encoding and decoding using exclusive or operations" was invented by Anand Nagarajan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a secret-sharing encoding and decoding using exclusive OR (XOR) operations. A first apparatus includes a data splitting circuit to receive a secret and generate first, second, third, and fourth secret segments based on the secret and a secret share encoding circuit to generate first, second, third, and fourth secret shares by application of XOR operations to the first, second, th...