ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,961, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"Multi-modal cryptographic processor" was invented by Shaveer Bajpeyi (Toronto) and Glenn Gulak (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cryptographic processor chips, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cryptographic processor is disclosed. The cryptographic processor includes a first cryptographic processing module to perform a first logic operation. The first cryptographic processing module includes first input circuitry to receive ciphertext input symbols. A first pipeline stage performs a first oper...