US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET), STMICROELECTRONICS BELGIUM on July 15 for "Encryption and/or decryption key device, system and method" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,922, issued on July 15, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS BELGIUM (Machelen, Belgium).

"Encryption and/or decryption key device, system and method" was invented by Fabrice Marinet (Chateauneuf le Rouge, France) and Michael Peeters (Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes processing circuitry and one or more memories, including a non-volatile memory. Ephemeral cryptographic key generation circuitry, in operation, applies a function to code stored in the non-volatile memory, generating an ephemeral cryptographic key. Cryptographic ...