ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,909, issued on July 15, was assigned to Barclays Execution Services Ltd. (London).

"Method for processing encrypted data" was invented by George French (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method, a data processing apparatus, a computer program, and a computer-readable storage medium for processing encrypted data. There is provided a computer-implemented method for processing encrypted data, comprising receiving a swap key, wherein the swap key is the product of an exclusive OR operation performed on a first key and a second key; receiving a first ciphertext, wherein the first ciphe...