ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,964, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory controller cryptographic data quantization using a cache" was invented by Abbas Morshed (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ygal Arbel (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples described herein provide for an encrypted data quantization apparatus and method, for example a memory controller to quantize encrypted data using a cache. One or more embodiments includes obtaining a first set of plaintext data bits to be stored in a memory device using an encryption scheme. A memory address for encrypted data bits to be stored in the memory device is ...