US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR on June 3 for "Processor with an elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm and a data processing method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,521, issued on June 3, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Processor with an elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm and a data processing method thereof" was invented by Yanting Li (Beijing), Zhenhua Huang (Beijing), Yingbing Guan (Shanghai), Yun Shen (Beijing), Lei Yi (Xi'an, China) and Shuang Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor with an elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm and a data processing method thereof are shown. The processor has a first register, storing a public key pointer pointing to a public key. In response to a single elliptic curve cryptographic instruction of a...