ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,711, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Encryption system and method" was invented by Yevgeny Yankilevich (Tirat Carmel, Israel), Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.), Yi Yuan (Redmond, Wash.), Robert Groza Jr. (Redmond, Wash.) and Oren Ish-Am (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system uses Advanced Encryption Standard XEX Based Tweaked Codebook Mode with Ciphertext Stealing (AES-XTS) encryption to encrypt a block of data using a tweak key, a data key, a modified tweak value, and the block of data to thereby generate an encrypted block of data. The modified tweak...