US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Hash based cryptography accelerator" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,370, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hash based cryptography accelerator" was invented by Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Bharat S. Pillilli (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hash-based cryptographic system includes hash input registers and hash generators coupled in parallel with each other. Each hash generator of the hash generators is coupled to receive a corresponding hash input from one of the input registers. A controller is coupled to the input registers and configured to provide the corresponding hash input to the hash registers to cause...