ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,188, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cornami Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for configuring a reduced instruction set computer processor architecture to execute a fully homomorphic encryption algorithm" was invented by Morris Jacob Creeger (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tianfang Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Frederick Furtek (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Paul L. Master (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for configuring a reduced instruction set computer processor architecture to execute fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) logic gates as a streaming topology. The method includes parsing sequent...