ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,500, issued on April 8, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Method and system for determining an order of encrypted inputs" was invented by Hong Meng Benjamin Tan (Singapore) and Khin Mi Mi Aung (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of determining an order of encrypted inputs, including a first encrypted input and a second encrypted input, using at least one processor, the first encrypted input including a first encrypted data and the second encrypted input including a second encrypted data, each of the first and second encrypted data being encrypted based on a homo...