ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,962, issued on May 20, was assigned to MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Data encryption and decryption system and method" was invented by Dajiang Zhong (Shanghai) and Zhaohui Du (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data encryption and decryption system a host system, sequencer, hardware processor, direct memory access modules, and cryptography engines having input and output buffers, and symmetric encryption/decryption and digest algorithm modules. The host system determines encryption/decryption calculation and/or digest calculation method, and generates corresponding encryption/decryption and/or digest calculation com...