ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,532, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scalable tweak engines and prefetched tweak values for encyrption engines" was invented by Devanjan Maiti (Bengaluru, India), Robert Bellarmin Susai (Hyderanad, India) and Jayaram Pvss (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein describe a scalable tweak engine and prefetching tweak values. Regarding the scalable tweak engine, it can be designed to accommodate different bus widths of data. The scalable tweak engine described herein includes multiple tweak calculators that can be daisy chained together to output multiple tweak values every cl...