US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System on March 25 for "Method and apparatus for an ultra low power VLSI implementation of the 128-bit AES algorithm using a novel approach to the shiftrow transformation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,937, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for an ultra low power VLSI implementation of the 128-bit AES algorithm using a novel approach to the shiftrow transformation" was invented by Alekhya Muthineni (San Antonio) and Eugene John (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present techniques may provide improved processing and functionality of performance of the 128-bit AES Algorithm, which may provide improved power consumption. For example, in an embodiment, an encryption and decryption apparatus may comprise memory storing a curren...