ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,554, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data structure for encrypting sensitive data in autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Taek Ryoo (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephen Wolfe (San Jose, Calif.), Akshay Sharan (Seattle), Mihir Joshi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mustafa Bilgen (Brookline, Mass.), Mahesh Lagadapati (Telangana, India), Tao Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Santosh Katvate (Maharashtra, India) and Arun Gona (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of encrypting a secret storage structure. The method may include storing a secret ...