US Patent Issued to SILICON MOTION on Feb. 11 for "Apparatus and method for detecting errors during data encryption" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,126, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Apparatus and method for detecting errors during data encryption" was invented by Wun-Jhe Wu (Kinmen County, Taiwan), Po-Hung Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chiao-Wen Cheng (Zhubei, Taiwan), Jiun-Hung Yu (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Liu (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention introduces an apparatus for detecting errors during data encryption. The apparatus includes a key generation circuitry and a key-error detection circuitry. The key generation circuitry is arranged operably to realize a key expansion operation for generating multiple rou...