US Patent Issued to Belfort Labs on Dec. 16 for "Method for accelerating bootstrapping in a cryptographic application" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,733, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Belfort Labs BV (Leuven, Belgium).

"Method for accelerating bootstrapping in a cryptographic application" was invented by Michiel Van Beirendonck (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a bootstrapping operation in cryptographic application, includes receiving in an accelerator one or more input ciphertexts used in the cryptographic application to be bootstrapped and iteratively processing one or more accumulator variables in function of portions of the input ciphertexts; multiplying, within each iteration, the processed accumulator variables with a bootstrapping...