US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Addition mask value generator, encryptor and method for generating stream key" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,771, issued on April 22, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Addition mask value generator, encryptor and method for generating stream key" was invented by Kun-Yi Wu (Tainan, Taiwan) and Yu-Shan Li (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An addition mask value generator is provided. A first operation circuit is configured to obtain first intermediate data according to first output mask value and fourth output mask value. A second operation circuit is configured to obtain the addition output mask value of a first mask group according to first intermediate data and fourth input mask value. A ...