ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,667, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Computing device for checking a software key" was invented by Camille Germain Vuillaume (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device configured to check a software key of a user terminal device. The computing device includes: an ALU, a plurality of registers having a storage capacity of at least x bits, and a data memory. The computing device is configured to perform a multiplication of two y-bit numbers each formed by a plurality of x-bit digits, as follows: loading the x-bit digits of the y-bit numbers into the registers, and repeatedly cal...