US Patent Issued to Duality Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Accelerated division of homomorphically encrypted data" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,792, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Duality Technologies Inc. (Maplewood, N.J.).

"Accelerated division of homomorphically encrypted data" was invented by Marcelo Blatt (Modiin, Israel) and Yuval Harness (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing an operation on at least one homomorphically encrypted ciphertext, the method include determining, by a computing device, a value that is an initial approximation of a result of the operation on the at least one homomorphically encrypted ciphertext; and iteratively improving, by the computing device, the value using a recurrence relation wherei...