US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Systems and methods for hardware acceleration of data masking" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,277, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for hardware acceleration of data masking" was invented by Jinwen Xi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ming Gang Liu (Kirkland, Wash.) and Eric S. Chung (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field programmable gate array (FPGA) including a configurable interconnect fabric connecting a plurality of logic blocks, the configurable interconnect fabric and the logic blocks being configured to implement a data masking circuit configured to: receive input data including data values at a plurality of indices of the input data; se...