US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 11 for "Hardware protection of inline cryptographic processor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,100, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Hardware protection of inline cryptographic processor" was invented by Amritpal S. Mundra (Allen, Texas) and William C. Wallace (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real time, on-the-fly data encryption system is operable to encrypt and decrypt data flow between a secure processor and an unsecure external memory system. Multiple memory segments are supported, each with its own separate encryption capability, or no encryption at all. Data integrity is ensured by hardware protection from code attempting to access data across memory segment boundari...