ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,047, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Nanjing Tenafe Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. (China).

"Method, system and apparatus for data encryption" was invented by Xiaojun Ding (Shanghai) and Zhikai Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is detected whether a next-to-last raw data block in a raw data segment has been written into an input buffer. A sequence number difference is calculated between sequence numbers of the next-to-last raw data block and a current raw data block. It is determined whether the sequence number difference exceeds a number of operation rounds associated with encryption. In response to: (1) detecting th...