ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,652, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Duality Technologies Inc. (Maplewood, N.J.).

"Privacy preserving column binding implementation" was invented by Marcelo Blatt (Modiin, Israel), Oded Rosolio (Ra'anana, Israel) and Lior Liram (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improving homomorphic encryption include: receiving, by a computing device, a data set from at least two or more computing devices, each data set comprising: a plurality of encrypted identifiers, and a number indicating the number of the plurality of encrypted identifiers; creating, by the computing device, a single data set including ...