US Patent Issued to CRYPTO LAB on July 1 for "Apparatus for processing homomorphic encrypted messages and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,609, issued on July 1, was assigned to CRYPTO LAB INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for processing homomorphic encrypted messages and method thereof" was invented by Junbum Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Younggi Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of processing an encrypted message. The method of processing an encrypted message includes checking exponential data and mantissa data for numerical data, performing homomorphic encryption on the mantissa data, and merging the encrypted mantissa data and the exponential data to generate a homomorphic encrypted message."

The patent was filed on Jun...